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James Powell (jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu)
Wed, 14 Jul 93 13:42:18 -0400

I have a photograph I took in the Okefenokee of a stand of S. minor next to a
stand of S. flava. They are both in full sun and both clumps are nearly the
same height. I found them while canoing through the swamp at the north
entrance (Waycross, GA I think). I saw others in smaller clumps in full sun
and partial shade. The odd thing was, along the road which the entrance to the
park, there are S.minor growing along the road and in the ditch and these
plants are much much shorter. Both types seem to be within a couple miles of
one another. CP are so dense along the entrance road that I wondered if they
were an artificial planting - S. minor, D. rotundifolia, D. intermedia, 2 types
of Pinguicula and a Utricularia, often all within one square foot of ditch
side.

There is a long boardwalk type trail at the Suwannee canal recreation area
farther south and east of Waycross, probably the same place you mention. I saw
S. minor 'Oke Giant' and small S. psittacina. I could barely spot the
psittacina from the boardwalk, so I developed the habit of putting one foot off
onto the swampy jiggly masses that look like ground to get a better look. Half
way out, I learned what I bad habit this was. As we passed over a portion of
the walkway, it hissed. Out crawled a 6 foot alligator unhappy about being
disturbed duing the noonday heat. Up on the boardwalk, we were about 12 inches
above it and out of reach, but had I spotted a plant and stepped over...

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