Back to safety:
Something I wished to capture while
I was at Okefenokee was the nature of how the giant
Sarracenia minor plants grow. All too often, photographs of this
species
show a lovely, multipitchered, single plant. It gives the impression that
the plant grows in well separated clumps. Oh no, not at all the truth!
Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis
really likes to grow at
the interface of shrubs and open water, and so lines the edges of many
parts of the canoe trails in long patches, like hedge rows.
It would be interesting to travel off the trails and see how the plants
grow in the open flats. However, straying from the canoe trails is
prohibited.
These clumps of plants lining the canoe path are not clones,
by the way.
Although you cannot see it on
this scan, the plants in this picture include a number of different color
morphs.
Another photograph from this area, that is not quite as good but still
worth a quick peek,
is on line here.
