Lucia Day
today
and half a century ago

I needed an oracle
and found
an Orache

weatherbeaten
shore polymorphic
with triangular sails

Atriplex prostrata
Spjutmålla i juni, i september, i november och i februari

Eva Ekeblad, 2001

The sample to the left, the one with flowers in fruit, is from a branched miniature with fleshy leaves and almost woody stems, in the paving by the Bus Center. The sample above, with the detail of male flowers, is from the New Lawn - one of many similar erect and soft-leaved late starters.