During September I visited a local small nature preserve that is on land owned by the City of Foley, AL and walked on some of the trails. The preserve is mostly wetlands which are drained by a small stream that is tributary to Wolf Bay one of the bays that form Perdido Bay which forms the boundary between Alabama and Florida. One of the attractions in the preserve is that it has some areas which are home to pitcher plants. Pitcher plants as you may know are plants that include insects as a major part of their nutrition and are usually found in wetland or boggy areas throughout the world. I had never seen these plant carnivores before so luckily I took my camera as I had hoped to get some bird pics as well. Thought some of you other nature lovers may like to take a peek at what I saw. The ones I saw I believe to be the white topped picture plant, genus Sarraccenia. Also, as you may know that what you see at the top of the stalk is not a flower but are modified leaves that look like flowers. I was in the area well after the blooming season and was lucky to see the working part of the plant. I'm not a botanist so I just call it the "mouth". I'm sure it likely has a technical name. These plants were growing in semi-wet areas that were almost like meadows with a few scattered small pine trees. I hope to be able to return earlier in the summer and get photos of them blooming now that I know what to look for and where they are growing.
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