Essential Lightness. Blue Meadow
by Jenny Rainbow
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Essential Lightness. Blue Meadow
Artist
Jenny Rainbow
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Essential Lightness. Blue Meadow by Jenny Rainbow.
Little Quaking Grass
Member of the grass family. Each grass flower is made up of a pair of tiny bracts, the stamens and pistil. The flowers are grouped into clusters called florets (a cluster of flowers). Because grasses are wind pollinated, they do not need showy flowers to attract insects. In fact, petals could block the wind and prevent pollination.
The rattle-like florets of this plant are distinctive and you are unlikely to confuse it with any other grass.
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Grasses are strange and secretive plants. Their elusive flowers are reduced to tiny proportions, so instead of bright, showy petals they have minute, specialised scales. All this is because they have reverted back to wind-pollination, that old-fangled method that doesn’t rely on insects or birds. This retro way of life appears to have worked out well for grasses, which are found in pretty much every habitat across the world (coast to tundra) and have formed huge ecosystems covering ¼ of the Earth surface.
At first sight they may seem deceptively simple, but the identification of grasses is notoriously tricky for us tender-footed beginners.
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February 14th, 2018
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