Three months ago, I found and brought home a sample of pink grass from the shallow end of Buttle Lake. I wrote about it here: "I give up!" The grass was growing in an inch or so of water and in goopy mud, so at home, I planted it, with its own mud, in a bowl of water, hoping it would grow enough to be able to identify it.
I've topped up the water daily, with de-chlorinated water, and the few stems of grass have grown into a patch 10 centimetres across and with some stems up to 20 cm. tall. It's a delicate grass, with tiny flowering spikelets. And mostly green, although it was pink when I brought it home.
And yesterday, in among the grass, I found a yellow flower. A tiny flower, to match the tiny grass spikelets.
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| Typical buttercup, but only 6 mm. across on a long stem with few, narrow leaves. |
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| There's only the one flower stem among the grass. |
I found it on iNaturalist, growing all up and down Buttle Lake; it's the Lesser Spearwort, Ranunculus flammula. A seed must have come home with the mud.
Hace tres meses, en mayo, encontré un pasto color de rosa creciendo en agua y lodo empapado en el Lago Buttle. Traje un poco a casa para tratar de identificarlo. (Aquí se ve como lo encontré: "I give up!")
En casa, lo sembré en un poco de agua y a diario añado un poco de agua sin cloro para mantener el nivel, y ahora llena un recipiente que mide 10 centímetros de diámetro; algunos tallos llegan hasta los 20 cm. Es un pasto fino, con espiguillas pequeñas. Y verde, aunque al principio era color de rosa.
Y ayer, entre este pasto, encontré una flor amarilla. Una florecita muy pequeña, up poco más grande que las espiguillas del pasto.
- Una flor de Ranunculus típica, pero que mide apenas 6 mm.
- Una sola planta de esta flor entre el pasto. Y una sola florecita.
Beautiful photo of the buttercup. Lovely blurred background.
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