middlefork savanna observations

This is my niche. My playground, shelter, the tall grass that provides me with nutrients, energy, that sustains me. It delivers amino acids that make me grow. We are neighbors, lovers, friends. I share with the zebra bees. There wings flap two hundred times a minute as they gorge on my sweet nectar. I am not mad at them. They are spreading my DNA, so my children can grow. Futile, passionate as the sun plays hide and seek. I seek it, my seeds crave it. I feel the photosynthesis in my body, it is real, and it shakes me. Tall ugly creatures stare at me, think I am weak. They do not see my complexity, my mitochondria, my chloroplasts. They don’t see that our DNA is ninety six percent the same as mine. They trample me, why when they need me? They don’t own me, I own me!

It stands about a foot and a half tall. The stem is round, circular, around a millimeter in diameter. The very bottom of the stem is green, than the green fades into a dark red after about six inches. Then an inch later there is three leaves pointing north, southwest, and southeast. The one green one pointing north is shaped like a teardrop (do blind people know what a teardrop looks like?) it is about a centimeter long and half a centimeter wide. I think the other two are older because they are about an inch long. They have started to turn brown, develop little holes, and crinkle. From were the stem starts is yellow and the upper part is brown. One leaf is curled up completely.
Another inch of red stem, and another cluster of leaves. There are eight in a cluster four around the stem and four bigger ones that are about the length of a long fingernail and than four smaller leaves sticking straight up in the middle. There are two bigger ones that are two to three inches. One is green with brown spots and three small holes in it. The other leaf starts of green then fades to brown then yellow at its curled tip.
Another inch of stem and another similar cluster of leaves, except there is only one big oval leaf that has five or six holes in it, it looks like it was burnt with a lighter.
Another red inch of stem, another of cluster of leaves. Four leaves in the middle cluster around something strange. Inside there are buds, little yellow cones, thin with circular fuzzies (pollan) and four smaller yellow sticks around it. They have a weird rough bumpy texture, than another cluster of leaves with two buds. At the top there are four curled up leaves at opposite corners from each other. They start of red and then fade up to green with three pointed leaves. Than an inch up there are two longer thinner leaves that start of red and then turn to green, they have fuzzy hairs on them. The right one looks healthy, the left one starts of red and turns yellow the tip curls inward. One top is one black strand with prickles that winds up like a loop it is brown and the thinnest part of the plant