I noticed what looked like a cluster of small snowballs in the grasses at the water's edge, which was really curious in September, so I just had to get closer ... it was a delightful meadow of seven angled pipeworts (Eriocaulon aquaticum)
The common name describes the beautiful 7-angled spiral of the flower stem - if you look closely at the pic below, you can see the lines in the green stem forming a gentle twist.
The ball of whitish flowers reminds me of the Math construction kit called Zometool
Don't these look like pipeworts to you? The rods also have twists to them!
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