A very low-tech page just so I can link to some of the photos I
took on a recent trip through the Everglades. These plants were all
seen within a few hundred square feet area at a rest stop on the
stretch of I-75 going straight-line across the Everglades about
half-way across.
- P.pumila - probably. I'm not an
expert at ID'ing Pings.
- U.purpurea - This I
know; it's hard to mis-ID the only Utricularia species native
to Florida with a bright purple flower. Everywhere I've ever seen it,
it's always lying in the mud half-dried-out.
- U.purpurea - This time it's
actually in the water. Very strange...
- U.cornuta - The Everglades
are just lovely. It's called "The river of grass." You can see why -
this kind of habitat just stretches for miles and miles and miles.
- U.cornuta - Taking advantage
of an open trail left by vehicles.
- U.cornuta - A nice closeup of
the flowers.
- U.cornuta - Another nice(r)
closeup of the flowers.
- U.cornuta - They were really
just everywhere.
- U.unknown - I'll tenatively ID this
as U.floridana because of the different leaf types. If you
look closely (I know, it's a dried-out mess) you'll see there are
distinctly carnivorous and non-carnivorous leaf "bundles" - typical of
U.floridana....
- U.unknown - .... Except in the
water, the habit looks more like U.foliosa. Perhaps they are
both present here? I wish I had brought my copy of Taylor with me to
ID by seed capsules (they were present) but I was supposed to be on
vacation and not expecting to be plant-hunting!
