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  • A gorgeous green spring afternoon on the Middle Saluda River was the perfect place for me to take my shoes off, get my feet wet and set up my tripod for this shot. After a bit of searching, I found this heavenly spot that was clear of the teeming fly fishermen. Very few places in North America are as beautiful as this part of South Carolina in the springtime!
    Middle Saluda River
  • Native to South America, the windowbox sorrel was brought to North America as an attractive garden ornamental, and has since escaped and spread across most of the Southeast and has recently been showing up in California. These were photographed in South Carolina near the Saluda River.
    Windowbox Woodsorrel
  • The highland dog hobble is a member of the heather family found across many parts of the American Southeast, and is associated with mountain streams where there is deep shade and somewhat acidic soils, such as this one growing next to a waterfall in northern South Carolina. The flowers are very similar to that of its close relative - the blueberry.
    Highland Dog Hobble
  • A female American bullfrog cools off in a pool of water on the edge of the Middle Saluda River just outside of Cleveland, South Carolina on a hot spring day.
    American Bullfrog
  • A wonderful waterfall from the Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area in northern South Carolina.
    Wildcat Falls
  • Found only in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, the hooded pitcher plant is one of the smaller of our native pitcher plants found at the edges of bogs and wet pinelands. Like all carnivorous plants, nectar glands inside the "hood" attract insects where a series of hairs inside the pitcher (a modified leaf) encourages the insect downward into the tube until it cannot turn around and escape. These insects will in turn be dissolved and deliver the essential nutrients that are needed in such a plant that grows in such nutrient-poor soils. This is the blossoming flower that is ironically also pollinated by flying insects. This one was found and photographed during the summer rains in the Osceola National Forest in North Florida.
    Hooded Pitcher Plant
  • Found only in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, the hooded pitcher plant is one of the smaller of our native pitcher plants found at the edges of bogs and wet pinelands. Like all carnivorous plants, nectar glands inside the hood and white translucent "windows" attract insects where a series of hairs inside the pitcher (a modified leaf) encourages the insect downward into the tube until it cannot turn around and escape. These insects will in turn be dissolved and deliver the essential nutrients that are needed in such a plant that grows in such nutrient-poor soils. This one was found and photographed during the summer rains in the Osceola National Forest in North Florida.
    Hooded Pitcher Plant
  • Found only in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, the hooded pitcher plant is one of the smaller of our native pitcher plants found at the edges of bogs and wet pinelands. Like all carnivorous plants, red coloration and sweet nectar glands inside the "hood" attract insects where a series of hairs inside the pitcher (a modified leaf) encourages the insect downward into the tube until it cannot turn around and escape. These insects will in turn be dissolved and deliver the essential nutrients that are needed in such a plant that grows in such nutrient-poor soils. This one was found and photographed during the summer rains in the Osceola National Forest in North Florida.
    Hooded Pitcher Plant
  • The common red elderberry is found throughout most of North America, excluding the Gulf coastal plain and the states of South Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas. Not as often used as it once was in the past, elderberries are known to make fantastic jellies and wines. Caution should be used before consuming them - unless properly cooked, elderberries can cause nausea in most people, and the leaves and bark contain toxic compounds that produce arsenic. This one was found and photographed in a small wooded area just south of Seattle, Washington.
    Red Elderberry
  • The common red elderberry is found throughout most of North America, excluding the Gulf coastal plain and the states of South Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas. Not as often used as it once was in the past, elderberries are known to make fantastic jellies and wines. The very fragrant white flowers in spring attract many species of hummingbirds and butterflies. Traditionally used medicinally by Native Americas - the inner bark was sometimes used as a diuretic or as a way to induce vomiting. These were found and photographed in the North Cascades just east of Mount Baker in Washington State.
    Red Elderberry
  • Also known as the spotted wakerobin, the spotted trillium is found in very scattered pockets in undistrubed rich mesic forests in parts of Georgia, Southeastern South Carolina, Alabama, and extreme North Florida.
    Spotted Trillium
  • The world's most famous carnivorous plant - the venus flytrap, growing wild in a bog in North Florida. These natives to the American Southeast - primarily North and South Carolina, have been spreading and thriving in the Apalachicola National Forest.
    Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)
  • Found almost everywhere in North America (except Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida) this aggressive native aster has become invasive in parts of China, Japan and Europe. This perfect specimen was found near Soos Creek in Kent, Washington about 20 miles south of Seattle.
    Canada Goldenrod
  • Lady lupine is one of the most beautiful of the wildflowers of the American Southeast, and is found in areas that are very dry with very sandy soils. Ranging from North Carolina to Louisiana and south toward Central Florida, this attractive member of the pea family can often be found on roadsides, like this one outside of Tallahassee, Florida.
    Lady Lupine
  • Lady lupine is one of the most beautiful of the wildflowers of the American Southeast, and is found in areas that are very dry with very sandy soils. Ranging from North Carolina to Louisiana and south toward Central Florida, this attractive member of the pea family can often be found on roadsides, like this one outside of Tallahassee, Florida.
    Lady Lupine Close-Up
  • Lady lupine is one of the most beautiful of the wildflowers of the American Southeast, and is found in areas that are very dry with very sandy soils. Ranging from North Carolina to Louisiana and south toward Central Florida, this attractive member of the pea family can often be found on roadsides, like this one outside of Tallahassee, Florida.
    Lady Lupine
  • Not commonly seen in southern Florida, the black-throated blue warbler is native to Eastern Canada down to the Carolinas, and is one of the few blue-colored birds in the Southeast. It is usually only seen while it is migrating south to the Caribbean or Central America where it spends its winters. This one was photographed in the Big Cypress National Preserve of SW Florida on a brisk fall morning.
    Black-throated Blue Warbler
  • Field chickweed (Cerastium arvense) is a very common member of the pink and carnation family that grows natively throughout many places in the world. It is found in Europe, South American, and almost all of Canda and the United Staes excluding Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, the Carolinas, Alabama and Florida. These were found growing out of serpentine outcrops on Washington State's Fidalgo Island.
    Field Chickweed
  • Field chickweed (Cerastium arvense) is a very common member of the pink and carnation family that grows natively throughout many places in the world. It is found in Europe, South American, and almost all of Canda and the United Staes excluding Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, the Carolinas, Alabama and Florida. These were found growing out of serpentine outcrops on Washington State's Fidalgo Island.
    Field Chickweed
  • Field chickweed (Cerastium arvense) is a very common member of the pink and carnation family that grows natively throughout many places in the world. It is found in Europe, South American, and almost all of Canda and the United Staes excluding Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, the Carolinas, Alabama and Florida. These were found growing out of serpentine outcrops on Washington State's Fidalgo Island.
    Field Chickweed