Scientific name: Taeniatherum caput-medusae Family: Poaceae (grass) Habitat: grassland, disturbed areas Size: plant 6 to 10 inches tall; floret 5 to 8
cm including awns
Scientific name:Eleocharis
macrostachya Family: Cyperaceae (rush) Habitat: vernal pools, wetlands Size: Plants are up to 24 inches tall; stem
looks like a long green straw with a tiny pine cone-like flower
at the tip.
Scientific name: Callitriche
marginata Family: Callitrichaceae (water starwort) Habitat: vernal pools, wet areas
Size: Clusters of floating leaves are 1.0 to 1.5 cm across.
Scientific name:Psilocarphus
brevissimus Family: Asteraceae (sunflower) Habitat: vernal pools Size: plant up to 4 inches tall, each
“marble” 1 to 2 cm across
“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” - Rainer Maria Rilka
For 2 billion years, bacteria were the only creatures on Earth.
Long before the dinosaurs, a special type of bacteria slowly
increased the level of oxygen in the Earth’s air to 20 percent.
Without this oxygen other plants and animals could not have
evolved, including us.
