Pink muhly from a little farther back

Oh, and if you’d like to step back and get a better sense of what Muhlenbergia capillaris, called pink muhly and gulf muhly, looks like, and why people are increasingly planting it as an ornamental, I’m happy to oblige. Like the last picture, this one comes from the grounds of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, on the morning of November 9.

© 2013 Steven Schwartzman

Dropping in on pink muhly

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Muhlenbergia capillaris, a pretty grass known as pink muhly and gulf muhly, is native in parts of Arkansas as well as Texas (and various other states). I found this one on the grounds of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, on November 9. Some brown sprigs from a bald cypress tree, Taxodium distichum, had fallen into the feathery grass and remained caught there.

© 2013 Steven Schwartzman