ancestral preoccupation

the central stalk on the flowering hopi blue maize is three feet tall ( the upper leaves are up to over four feet ) and there are three branches growing out of the base...the other two are smaller and still only have a single stalk so i am awaiting developments there...it will be interesting to compare the morphology of the maize with the northern tepehuan teosinte on campus and in my back yard...the connection between the two plants is manifest in their appearance ( as is the relationship with the zea diploperennis...catastrophic sexual mutation seems a bit farfetched to me as an explanation of maize husks...the plant didn't commit suicide...the trait seems to me to have been the result of artificial selection over generations )the yams, asparagus, intermediate wheat grass, and eastern gamagrass are continuing their reproductive frenzy as well...i finally caught a gamagrass seed head that was mature but had not shattered yet...so i netted a handful of seeds to add to my collection...i worry about how many i must already have missed...they have a low germination rate but the plant is relentless once established...all perennials seem to be invasive.