Early Sandgrass

A very tiny annual grass is already in flower. It is Early Sandgrass (Mibora minima).

Those first flowering stalks are only a few centimetres high. To compensate they are with many, thousands of small Early Sandgrasses grow in this fallow corn field. At once a green veil covers the grey earth.

In a few weeks we'll find here giant plants of fifteen centimetres. Many white anthers emerge from wine-red spikelets. After flowering the field turns red because of those spikelets. And soon it will be all over, the Early sandgrass dies before summer begins.