Photograph by Matthew Opel.
Photography contest, Honorable Mention.
Sarracenia purpurea ssp. purpurea -- purple pitcher plant, growing in a floating sphagnum bog in Tolland County, Connecticut.
7 Comments
ksplawn · 19 May 2014
If I were an insect, I'd be terrified.
https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad · 19 May 2014
If we just had much larger versions of the same we'd likely be rid of a whole lot of creationists.
I have never seen wild pitcher plants or venus flytraps. I have come across sundews in Michigan.
DanHolme · 20 May 2014
This is a gorgeous picture, really smashing. How big do these plants get? I've only ever seen the anemic looking potted ones in garden centres, which clearly don't match their wild relatives.
Red Right Hand · 20 May 2014
Off-topic, but of possible interest...
Judge John Jones just declared Pennsylvania's law banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
https://me.yahoo.com/a/yCTZpzcvy5VbV7c0LbBGC2F26tKI#9a762 · 20 May 2014
7 Comments
ksplawn · 19 May 2014
If I were an insect, I'd be terrified.
https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad · 19 May 2014
If we just had much larger versions of the same we'd likely be rid of a whole lot of creationists.
Glen Davidson
fnxtr · 19 May 2014
Gorgeous.
KlausH · 19 May 2014
I have never seen wild pitcher plants or venus flytraps. I have come across sundews in Michigan.
DanHolme · 20 May 2014
This is a gorgeous picture, really smashing. How big do these plants get? I've only ever seen the anemic looking potted ones in garden centres, which clearly don't match their wild relatives.
Red Right Hand · 20 May 2014
Off-topic, but of possible interest...
Judge John Jones just declared Pennsylvania's law banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
https://me.yahoo.com/a/yCTZpzcvy5VbV7c0LbBGC2F26tKI#9a762 · 20 May 2014
Provincial flower of Newfoundland and Labrador.