Splash cups! These plants are amazing. They are shaped like a tiny cup (maybe 1/2 cm in diameter) with their seeds (the red beans) resting unattached in the bottom of the cup. They wait for a raindrop or a water splash to enter the cup, which then scatters the seeds! Talk about evolution.
Lovely ferns...these are only about 8 inches high. Mini-Boston. Boston-lite?
The money shot - lying on my belly in a field of Eriophorum - aka cottongrass - while the bugs feasted!
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cottongrass is so pretty!
i like your photos - keep 'em coming!
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