This is only half an ID, since I don’t know what kind of butterfly that is. But the plant it’s on is a bastard indigo (Amorpha fruticosa).
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Pictures of Pitchers1
But first, in honor of Earth Day, the online art community deviantART is donating 10% of its prints sales to The Nature Conservancy. I suspect I may be bound by law to pimp this, but even if I had no association with either organization2, it’s damned nice of ‘em. And they have some really excellent [...]
ID: Indian Pinks
These little two-toned flowers are blooming all around the visitor center at Florida Caverns State Park right now.
ID: Pale Grass-Pink
I was looking for pitcher plants in the Apalachee Savannahs when I happened to see this little plant, the pale grass-pink (Calopogon pallidus). It’s a member of the orchid family, as you may have guessed from the oddly shaped flowers. The flowers may be small, but they’re very interesting up close.
ID Project: Florida Anise
Florida anise, growing in a ravine. This flower always surprises me; it doesn’t look to me like a flower that would be on a tall woody shrub.
ID Project: Needle Palm
I’m changing the rules of the ID-a-Day project a bit. For one thing, it’s obviously not going to be every day. (Was it ever?) For another, the subject doesn’t have to be something I don’t recognize. It can be something I do know, but if so, I’ll look it up and find out something about [...]
ID: Showy Rattlebox
And here’s the yellow flower I mentioned in my last post. Turns out it’s showy rattlebox — Crotalaria spectabilis. It is not native to Florida; it was originally imported as a cover crop. Now it grows wild here and there in disturbed areas.
