Flowers:
This is what Sarracenia psittacina
usually looked like--masses of flowers that had gone
by. (I am sure that a few weeks earlier, they would have looked fabulous!)
The pitchers were a little harder to find. They tended to be hidden
by the grasses and forbs, although the occasional water's-edge plant
occurred here and there.
Some say that the Sarracenia psittacina in Okefenokee are also
"giant." Well, I cannot say that I saw any that were particularly
large. Certainly, they were larger than some
plants I have seen in the wild, and
especially were larger than some I have found
growing in hot and dry conditions like a
parched road-side mow strips. However, I have seen plants in the
Seminole, Florida area which were even larger.
The pink flowers in this photograph are Pogonia ophioglossoides,
a cute little orchid.
