Monday 8 September 2014

This day in Nature: Heavenly Grass

Chinese silver grass in Mimico Creek, Toronto

September 8th: This heavenly-looking grass is Chinese Silvergrass. The silver head is beautiful, and full of seeds. Thousands of seeds will be lofted into the air by this stand of plants alone, which may explain how this grass got here. It is an ornamental grass that probably escaped from someone's garden on the wind, and now grows in the sheltered valley of Mimico Creek, far from any house.

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