Thanksgiving History. Thanksgiving is a particularly American holiday. The word evokes images of football, family reunions, roasted turkey with stuffing, pumpkin pie and, of course, the Pilgrims and Wampanoag, the acknowledged founders of the feast.
A forb (sometimes spelled phorb) is a herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grasses, sedges and rushes). The term is used in biology and in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands[1] and understory.
My understanding is that herb is a pretty general term that includes all herbaceous plants, i.e. forbs = a herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid; Graminoids = which encompass grasses (i.e. poaceae), sedges (cyperaceae) and rushes (juncaceae).