Poverty grass is a thin-leafed plant found on the planet Arrakis. This grass was used by Planetologist Pardot Kynes in his terraforming program of that planet. The Dune EncyclopediaThis article or section refers to elements that appear exclusively in The Dune Encyclopedia. It was a mutated version of the plant which had been engineered by Salim, one of Kynes's first Fremen students. It was tested in the Station facilities, and had shown the ability to survive on only basic nutrients, airborne moisture, and a minimum of supplementary watering.