Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Grass











I noticed one of the gaps in my floralore is in the grasses. They are ubiquitous and therefore easily overlooked. I have started looking at what is around me in a very immediate area. Some cursory look for types and names have come up with such goodies as Goose grass, Foxtail, Johnsongrass and crowsfootgrass . I have not ventures into the wilds of prospect park so eveything here is all from "side walk" habitats. The corn stalk might seem odd man out but it is in the family and I did find it by chance growing au natural, if that is the right phrase. If it does flower and it does fruit, and is susequently not eaten, I am told corn cannot reseed without human intervention. I would like that to be wrong.

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