While walking a trail through a wooded area recently, I came upon a small area covered with a beautiful kind of grass. The sun lit up the grass nicely.
My photo here does not show the leaves/blades of the grass. It shows the actual flower heads of a special kind of grass known by several common names: wood oats, Indian wood oats, wild oats, spangle grass and even fishing grass.
I especially like the title "fishing grass." Use your imagination a little bit and the skinny arcing stem resembles a fishing pole with several lines hanging heavily with fish. The flower heads will turn to seed heads. Wood oats is native to eastern and central North America.
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