What's Blooming - in Wooded Areas along the Trails and Rivers in Florida
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pitcher plants

5-2-2008: A clutch of hooded pitcherplants bloom in Rock Springs Run State Reserve, a massive DEP tract along the middle Wekiva River, south of State Road 46 in Lake County. The plants migrated from an adjacent bog into the deeper, moister ruts of a fire-break road. Several hundred thrive there, and I look forward every season to seeing them in bloom. This is Sarracenia minor, unlike the open-hooded trumpet pitcherplant (S. flava) that William Bartram described in north Florida. I’ve always appreciated the old naturalist’s passion, and particularly enjoyed the way he referred to another carnivorous Florida plant as a “sportive” vegetable.

Reported by Bill Belleville, Sanford