Signals from the Grasses

This part 4 of 4 of The Turn of a Season photoessay.

Warm-season grasses thrive in the heat and then they flower and set seed in late summer and fall.

Sedges have edges and rushes are round

Grasses are hollow and rush all around

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This wet-feet loving grass

are having flowers.

One of my favorite grass flowers.

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This form of grass flower is called raceme,

attached to the main axis

by such a thin stem.

The arrangement reminds me of

Heliconia flower.

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Cluster of grass flower

is called grass inflorescence

and this is the spike type

where flowers are directly

attached to main axis.

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Another spike type inflorescence.

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Grass inflorescence that has branches

and called panicle.

And there's many more

I am still waiting on to bloom.

My favorite maroon grass flowers

and ever so faintly pink grass

are yet to be seen.

I'll keep watching.