The Love Grass: for the Hot, Loud and Proud

We are very familiar with this plant because it is an obnoxious weed. Its habit is clinging to any part of your clothing whenever you come in contact to it. That is its way of plant spread because it doesn't have wings as propagule for the wind to carry it. It can be carried by strong winds though not very far, clinging assures of far and easy transport to distant places.

We call it 'amorseko' or 'amorseco'. I just discovered its English common name as love grass now, when i looked for its scientific name, which is also eluding because there are so many. I chose Chrysopogon aciculatus from among them, not as an educated choice but because it sounds like so! Please pardon my laziness, it is not a habit but enduced by lack of time. Maybe it is called love grass because it clings! It just doesn't sound proper though.

I am posting it in this meme because it stands tall as proud as it can! It might also be so because its location where i photographed it is on top of a mountain, overlooking the sea, towering above the inhabited parts. What else can you be, but be proud! And of course its clinging habit makes it hot, and i would like to warn you that your skin under the cloth it clings feel so itchy and hot, as in 'HOT', that you get irked and immediately feel removing clothes and disposed them off. In my case, i diligently removed each clinging part and disposed them to the fire, for good! The end of its tribe!

Look at them looking tall and proud, against the backdrop of green and yellow vegetation, plus the blue sea at the background.

It surely is invasive and constant grazing doesn't limit its spread on top of this mountain, which is fully conquered by it.

 

This is Gulugod Baboy or 'Pig's Spine', as direct translation, which i posted earlier this year if you remember. It's almost zero visibility in the current mornings, and very cold. The fog left only at 9:00 am when the sun is already high up.

I didn't have the inkling that it is full of Amorseco during the rainy season. We were so happy to compare the view differences with dry season except for this grass. My jogging pants were full of its propagules, but the amorseco certainly made this climb more memorable.

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