Finnick is far from a botanist; there had been no need to teach anything about plants and how they grow or where to expect them in the schools in District Four, because District Four is for fishing and fish processing. Maybe someone from Eleven or Nine (or even Seven, if Johanna were still here) would know enough to be able to tell what's going on, but they only have people from Four and Twelve here.

"I haven't seen plants grow this quickly before," he says, though he sounds more confident in his assessment than he actually feels. Maybe this is just some entirely normal thing about how plants grow here, how they'd lain dormant over winter or something like that.

He holds out the little purple flower he'd picked. "These things are everywhere by the fields."

There hadn't been anything like them growing there in the last place they'd been, but maybe this was something that didn't get replicated.