i love a random upload, don't you?
the top photo is of some japanese bristle grass i yanked out of a bed in the back yard as i was taking photos of the zea diploperennis (second photo) because the usda sent me fifty more seeds (photo three) so i can grow some more next season ( the whole wild potato Solamun acaule project is still in limbo...aphis says i will get the seeds, but i have had no word on progress in a week)...they are subtropical perennials that i assume will only grow as die-back annuals this far north ( which won't stop me from mulching the heck out of the beds and hoping to see green next spring) so more seeds leaves me a happier man than i was...the bottom photo is of the bristle grass root system and the real reason for this blog...as i was heading towards the compost heap i took a look at it and saw the support roots it had grown...so these aren't limited to the zea family...a morphological characteristic of any number of grass species...i obviously need to look around more.
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