RHH's photos with the keyword: grass

These grasses covered in ice were photographed near the visitors' center in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. We had intended to hike in the Guadalupe Mountains the day this was taken but ended up exploring the caverns instead since the weather was so poor.

Sedges are notoriously hard to identify and this is no exception. It was photographed in Aman Park in western Michigan.

This is a native thistle, gone to seed and with the seeds of Meadow Salsify caught in the old flower heads.

This is the seed head of Meadow Salsify, not a native plant but very common in our area and photographed on one of our daily walks.

Here's another of the photos we've taken of plants that have gone to seed. There's not much blooming anymore in our area due to the dry conditions we've experienced and the fact that the end of summer is near.

Taken on one of our daily walks this and the insets show some of the end-of-the-summer plants we've photographed, here a grass with the wind-blown seeds of another plant caught in it.

This was taken on a hillside along the trail around Anderson Lake. A trip to the state park of that name was part of a recent visit to the Olympic Peninsula, and as is often the case I ended up taking pictures of anything I could find while waiting for my wife to catch up after taking some pictures of her own. The previous picture shows why she sometimes takes so long and why she often gets better pictures than I do.

I believe this to be correctly identified as a sedge, but which one I do not know. Perhaps someone who sees the picture can tell me, but I understand that the sedges are exceedingly difficult to distinguish. This was photographed on the tundra along the trail to Snowbird Pass in Mount Robson Provincial Park, but was also seen at lower elevations (alpine and sub-alpine).

We are in Michigan at our son and daughter-in-law's house and photographed this in a neighbor's garden after two days of snow and then some warmer weather.

Dew on ornamental grasses in a garden near our home.

Yesterday was dry, though mostly overcast, and we decided to take the afternoon off and go see the Grass Widows blooming at Pass Island. Once classified as Sisyrinchium douglasii, the plant, the only one of its genus in North America, is now Olsynium douglasii. It is one of the earliest wildflowers to bloom in our area and is native to the Pacific Northwest. Why it is called "Grass Widow" I do not know. The fairly large Pass Island lies between Canoe Pass and Deception Pass in the waterway between Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands. The island connects the two spans of the Deception Pass Bridge and its maze of trails can be reached from the bridge. It is part of Deception Pass State Park, is uninhabited and is a good place to see some of our native wildflowers. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/02/pass-island...