Plants die without water :: At least most of them doA dried, seemingly dead Star Moss (Tortula ruralis) looks about as lifeless as steel wool. However, seconds after adding only a few drops of water the once brown 'Brillo pad' becomes a lush green mass of individual branches with starlike needles.
Under electron microscopy, dried star moss reveals incredible cellular damage. "And yet it 
somehow repairs most of this damage within minutes," says Mel Oliver, a molecular biologist at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service laboratory). Oliver envisions lawns, rangelands, and pastures that could do the same.
This was just a clipping from a small web article about how, the majority of plants NEED water, if you notice at the end Oliver envisioned lawns, rangelands, and pastures doing the same thing that this plant they tested did. I think it was time to research more about the plants that will be affected by the change with no water than the plants that won't be as much. So I'm going to dedicate a week to the green plants and do get normal rainfall that need water to survive.
DRay ;D
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