Central FL photos

[joshua]

Just thought I would take some pictures of a wetland area that is a 30 minute walk from my house.
(note I am not a good photoagrapher)

Where I stand you can see the devolpment from which I came in...

(click to see larger pic)
And I turn around and see where I am heading...Where I hope to find S. minor...

And now some photos of the famos D. capillaris 'long leaf', my personal opnion is this is a hybrid with intermedia in it...

With some moss...

I walk a little ways and find this, is it a utric?

Farther on I find the biggest cappy that I have ever seen here...

Just some grass right?

Nope inside there are HUGE colonies of the common one...



The pine flats in which I had hoped to find S.minor but only found more D. capillariss and the charred remains of what I belive was once S. minor..


U. gibba ponds...



Thats it I never found minor but then again the site is huge and I did not have time to search it good.

-Josh

[Brian Barnes]

Hey Josh. I believe your Utric is U. cornuta, but Barry's the man for that one...
Nice Cappys. Long-leaf D. capillaris has been the topic for many a debate over the years. I'm afraid for now they're just "cappys"
I doubt you'll find S. minor in that area, it appears too grassy, but again you never know! Try looking around the edges of the grassline in sandier,drier soil near palmettos for Pinguicula lutea and Pinguicula caerulea.
Happy Hunting!
Brian.

[joshua]

Next time I go out I will be sure to go look for those pings!

As for the sarr; the first time I found S. minor in the wild I was hiking in ground which I thought unsuited for minor but sure enough I found some on the side of the path in almost the exact same terrain as the one picture. (Granted it was on the path that I found them, and in that picture you cannot see any paths I was standing on the only one in site)

However, there had been a controlled burn recently, how fast do sarrs recover from burns?

And about the Cappy's; the funny thing is that on the same site there are other smaller Cappy's that I have watched and grown before but they never get as big as the "long leaf" ones a foot away from them?

-Josh

[Dave Evans]

There appears to be an undescribed hybrid species, probably D. intermedia * D. capillaris. It is fertile, but secondary hybrids with it probably are not. Also, D. intermedia is extremely sensitive to the water level. The wetter its "feet" are, the much larger it gets. If these long-arm caps are a hybrid species, you can expect this trait to show in it too.

[BarryRice]

Apr 18, 2008 6:10:09 GMT Dave Evans said:

There appears to be an undescribed hybrid species, probably D. intermedia * D. capillaris. It is fertile, but secondary hybrids with it probably are not. Also, D. intermedia is extremely sensitive to the water level. The wetter its "feet" are, the much larger it gets. If these long-arm caps are a hybrid species, you can expect this trait to show in it too.

...but I rush to add that there is not consensus on this point. There are strongly held and divergent opinions on the matter.