Drosera at Dickinson State Park, FL
N 27° 01.190 W 080° 08.242
17R E 585572 N 2988924
These sundews are located in Jonathan Dickinson State Park, FL.
Waymark Code: WM2QMP
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/08/2007
Views: 60
For the preservation of this locality, collection is prohibited.
We were walking on a sandy road looking for geocaches during CacheApalooza Two when Dawg discovered these sundews. She noticed that they look just like her pet plants (Drosera sp.) in her back yard. They are bright red compared to everything else in the area. Once they were identified as carnivorous plants, we saw them everywhere along the sides of, and in the middle of the road. We had been stepping on them as other cachers had done before us! AUUGGGGGC!
The plants found at this location are definitely in the genus Drosera. By comparing the pictures we took of the plants at this local with plants seen on the The International Carnivorous Plant Society website, we believe this plant to be Drosera capillaris. From the aforementioned website:
Drosera capillaris
Range (USA): Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia. Possibly Tennessee?
This is the typical sundew you are likely to encounter in the southeastern USA. Most of them are pink-flowered, but the occasional white-flowered plant is reported. Jim Fowler tells me that in the Green Swamp, in North Carolina, the typical flower color is white.
Those who have spent any time looking at D. capillaris in the Gulf Coast or peninsular Florida know that there are great populations of plants with leaves that are much larger than they should be, with thick and zesty petioles. These are referred to as "long-leafed" D. capillaris. What is going on with these plants? A cryptic species? A hybrid swarm with other plants? I do not know!
If anybody is interested in comparing our pictures to the pictures on the The International Carnivorous Plant Society website:http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5265.html