Grassmins are distantly related to grassgirls.

People speculate that their common

ancestor was much more social and friendlier than
present day's grassgirl, which evolved to be selfish and competitive for reasons
not yet understood.

While physically similar to grassgirls, grassmins lack their famous spore sacs, and
their arms are not elungated. Instead, they grow colored flowers on their head
along with the grass. The flowers are not used for reproduction though, but play a
role that is just as important to their life cycle.

Unlike grassgirls, grassmins do not start fighting for root space as soon as they
are born, and instead cooperate.
While this behavior can also be rarely observed among grassgirls, this almost
always result in them getting their roots tangled,
forming the dreaded clusters of "grassladies".
Grassmins however, grow with roots that go straight down, essentially preventing
them from getting stuck with one another.

Once a grassmin's maturity is reached (about half a year in regular conditions),

they may decide to uproot themselves and start the second part of their lives.
In a patch of grassmins, the first grassmin to uproot itself is always the one that
uproots the others, and the appointed leader.

In fact, once a leader is present, all of the others in the patch will stop any and
all efforts towards uprooting themselves they were making,
letting themselves be helped out of the ground. The uprooting of others is always
done by pulling on their flower's stalk.

Once able to roam the land, grassmins start foraging and hunting under the command
of the leader, often taking on tasks much larger than they are.
When they share the spoils of their work, the leader always gets a
disproportionately larger share compared to the rest of the group.
This share increases the larger the group is, and could be summarized as each
grassmin sharing half of its food with the leader.
A group of grassmins is called a field.

A typical adult grassmin can measure up to 120cm (3'11") in height, which is

smaller than their solitary cousins, the grassgirls.
This is due to the fact that they have to share root space during their growth.
A grassmin leader, however, can keep growing up to about 180cm (almost 6' tall) and
beyond. This has nothing to do with their ridiculously larger food share,
and is actually a mutation triggering itself upon being recognized as a leader by
its peers.

As the Grassmin leader grows heavier, it is eventually debilitated by its own

massive body.
Even in that state though, the grassmins keep following its orders diligently, and
carry their leader along with the field wherever it goes.

Once a grassmin turned leader grows large enough, it starts to undergo another
transformation, as slots begin forming on its gigantic stomach and white patterns
form on its skin, which also grows thicker.
At this stage, the grassmin has turned into what is known as a Grassmin queen, and
is also able to reproduce by ejecting seeds from the slots on its belly.
A grassmin queen's digestive system is partially turned into this new reproductive
organ during the transformation. Anytime it eats, part of the food consumed goes
into the making of new seeds.
They keep acting as the leader at this stage, though their prodigious growth rate
is slowed down by the fact that they use nutriments to produce seeds now.
They can still get larger though, and their size is usually tied with the size of
the field, whose numbers would grow exponentially, provided that food is abundant.
If the leader does not uproot grassmins anymore, other grassmins may start doing it
themselves, becoming at their turn leaders to their uprooted kin. New leaders are
free of the influence of their previous leader, and will attempt uprooting more
grassmins before separating and making a field of their own.

In the event of the death of the grassmin queen, or of a grassmin leader, the
remaining members of the field will group around the body and start demonstrating a
special behavior. They will each kiss the defunct, transmitting them a certain
amount of their nectar-saliva. Once filled with the nectar of the field, the body
will start mutating, its skin will thin out and its insides will rapidly begin to
turn into grassmin seeds. Once full of seeds, the skin ruptures and seeds are
dispersed in the area, ensuring the next generation of grassmins.
Once this ritual is done, the leaderless grassmins will scatter and go wherever
they feel like going. That often ends up being in the traps of the unforgiving
nature, or in the jaws of a predator, though. Rarely does one stay behind to wait
for the seeds of the next generation to sprout.

Sometimes, grassmins can elect a non-grassmin as their leader. This could be due to
them uprooting the first grassmin of a patch, or stumbling upon a freshly
leaderless field of grassmins and looking leaderlike. Their behavior will be the
same as with a grassmin leader, though the leader obviously won't turn into a
grassmin queen.

Regardless of whether it is a grassmin or another species, grassmins love their

leader unconditionally.