How are steppe plants adapted to lack of water?

Steppe plants have a number of distinctive features that help them survive heat and drought. As a rule, they are annuals. With a sufficient amount of moisture, a shoot grows with a short growing season, gives seeds, and then dies off. The leaves of plants can be covered with villi or thick cuticles, which prevents evaporation. The color of the leaves is gray, gray, dark green. In some wild cereals, leaves in the heat can collect in a tube. Another adaptive feature is the presence of a well-developed root system.