{"id":7587,"date":"2017-03-28T00:57:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T05:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=7587"},"modified":"2017-04-04T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T13:54:43","slug":"in-pursuit-of-pitcher-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2017\/in-pursuit-of-pitcher-plants","title":{"rendered":"In Pursuit of Pitcher Plants 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

We decided to take a week-end trip to the Panhandle to see if we could find Pitcher Plants<\/strong>. We were not disappointed! [Gallery<\/a>] Here I am standing along Highway 65 in the Apalachicola National Forest<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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Those are Trumpet-Leaf Pitcher Plants<\/strong> that grew and bloomed between pretty severe mowing and spraying (see below). Here’s a closeup of the flower and insect-trapping pitcher…<\/p>\n

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Next we\u00a0drove to Wright Lake<\/strong> and took a long hike. We were surprised to see Lupines<\/strong> blooming under the pine trees…<\/p>\n

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There were many burned patches\u00a0in various states of recovery. In one we found this interesting flower. It starts out all white and then “burns up” with purple (or perhaps\u00a0the other way round?). Adapted to follow fire into cleared areas I think.<\/p>\n

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There were little clusters of pitcher plants here and there, and then we found this large group\u00a0in a damp semi-open area…<\/p>\n

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The next day we went back for a second look along Highway 65<\/strong> and bumped into Tim (not his real name) who is somewhat of an expert on carnivorous plants. He helped us find these beautiful Purple Pitcher Plant<\/strong> blooms…<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately whatever entity maintains that bit of highway\u00a0is very aggressive with spraying herbicides<\/strong> to keep the growth down.\u00a0There were dried up and dead pitcher plants in abundance. <frown> Tim said he had been coming to the\u00a0area since 1971 and there\u00a0used to be magnificent spring displays along this road. The flowers above were down in the bushes beyond the spraying.<\/p>\n

After that we\u00a0poked around a bit back in the woods but didn’t find any more pitchers. I did find another type of carnivorous plant, the Sundew<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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There were thousands in a “borrow pit” area. No chlorophyll but lots of little hairs each with a drop of sticky glue.\u00a0You can see the remains of a few ants if you look close. There was also this strange plant, I have no idea what it is…<\/p>\n

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Looks like a cross between a fern and a sundew!<\/p>\n

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A week later we visited Buck Island Pond<\/strong> and saw a third species, the Hooded Pitcher Plant<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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There are more photos of a fourth\u00a0species, the White-Top Pitcher Plant<\/strong>, I\u00a0took in 2013 in a separate gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We decided to take a week-end trip to the Panhandle to see if we could find Pitcher Plants. We were not disappointed! [Gallery] Here I am standing along Highway 65 in the Apalachicola National Forest… \u00a0 Those are Trumpet-Leaf Pitcher Plants that grew and bloomed between pretty severe mowing and spraying (see below). Here’s a … Continue reading “In Pursuit of Pitcher Plants 2017”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14,10],"tags":[398,402,400,401],"class_list":["post-7587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-photography","category-travel","tag-apalachicola-national-forest","tag-carnivorous-plants","tag-pitcher-plants","tag-sundews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7628,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions\/7628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}