grass - lines and joins

False oat-grass, Yorkshire fog, Dense silky-bent, cocksfoot grass, Loose silky-bent and wavy hair grass

It amazes me how something so simple, grass, can be so complex. Not only are there many different species but that shape, geometry of each is different. Just turning one round creates different lines breaking up the white space of the background. My diagrams were originally inspired from a love of abstract geometric art and how I saw these works in the everyday of the office, scientific visualisation, but I now also see these simple diagrams in nature, in things like plants. How the branches attach to the stem are interesting, sometimes they come out next to each other, symmetrically on either side. In some species they do alternate one side then the other. The angle from which the branches come away from the stem is also interesting, with some leaving the stem with an acute angle and others obtuse. How the lines intersect and travel across the page connecting to the flower is interesting.

I am not a grass expert but now keen to learn more not just because of their fascinating visual qualities but because of the diversity of nature right here on our door steps, or should I say lawns.