We started out stepping from grass hummock to grass hummock across expanses of gray-pudding mud, which when I sank into it was a richer black farther down.
Among these are the Canadian burnet, a plant belonging to the rose family; the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly; and bog turtles, as well as the mounds of tussock sedge grass and moss hummocks on which they lay eggs.
Soon I couldn't see a kangaroo bounding through the desert or grazing on hummock grass without thinking of the skull behind those living, thick-lashed eyes.
When I went to visit a friend who works at the Times, I admired the Times Building, new since 2007, and its interior courtyard open to the sky, where sedge grasses on small hummocks surround four tall birch trees.
Few long-lived plants, and not even the dominant hummock grass and shrub, were exclusively associated with one vegetation type, but most common species were aligned with elements – soil texture, fire frequency and the extent of physical soil crusting – that characterise the environmental gradient between vegetation types.
Beyond their broken walls, the hillside had sagged in places into a maze of grassy hummocks.
The snow had slumped in the warmth of the day, rounding itself over hummocks of grass and low sage.
Much of the Great Dividing Range is defined by forested areas of acacias, eucalyptus (see photo), and casuarinas, with hummock grasses and flowering plants, including banksias, in the undergrowth.
Long vistas of undulating hummocks billowing with grasses and lofty Piet Oudolf-style perennials bring eager visitors flocking from around the globe.
The boys stood in a bunch just outside the dissolving rim of the lanterns' light, perched on soft hummocks of unstable swamp grass and moss, constantly shifting their feet to knobs of firmer ground.
It's the same with every little hummock and patch of grass, every single leaf and blade and ear and flower.
