The first carnivores:
Can you see the two species of
carnivorous plants in this photograph? The purple-flowered plant is
Utricularia purpurea. This is one of the USA's two purple-flowered
bladderworts (the other is
U. resupinata--U. amethystina is a third purple-flowered
species that used to be in Florida, but it is now probably extinct
there.) The water
in Okefenokee is stained to the color (and pH!) of coca cola. It makes
for beautiful reflections.
One challenge about photography in Okefenokee is that with so little stable
ground, tripods are usually useless. So most of my photography on this trip
was hand held, which drove me crazy. Please forgive the shallow depths of
field.
(The second carnivorous plant in the photograph is
Utricularia gibba--appearing as
the greenish mat of stolons. While I did
not bother to photograph this species on our Okefenokee trip,
you can see photographs I took
of a flowering Floridian specimen.)
