The Darlingtonia Bog
( Part 2 )
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| Matt found a snake and picked it up. If you tried this in Florida, nine times out of ten the snake would chomp down, and about half those times, you'd probably be in for a trip to the hospital... Fortunately this one was just a cute li'l garter snake. |
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| Matt remembers seeing a number of Pinguicula out in the bog, but I don't recall any of them particularly. This is the only one of which I got a photo. |
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| D.capensis will take advantage of any opportunity. :) Unfortunately the hole it's taking advantage of used to contain one of the dwarf pines from the bog. Someone obviously really wanted a small tree. |
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| There were a few S.purpurea growing here and there. This one was pretty big. (Don't ask me to identify the particular variety, please. :) |
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| The D.capensis weren't completely ubiquitous. This is one of the areas that D.rotundifolia still dominated. The land-bound plants were typically smaller (but more colorful) than the ones in the water, as you will see in a later photo. |
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| A good example of the way the plants were growing along side of the little trickles and streams of water. They weren't growing in the water, but always close. |