Flora

Indian blanketflower

This flower, Gaillardia pulchella, goes by many common names. Indian blanket flower is the name I've encountered the most around here in central Florida. Whatever you want to call it, it's a gorgeous flower that never fails to catch my eye! I was hoping to get sunset colors in the background here, but the storm in the distance had other plans.

Indian blanketflower

This flower, Gaillardia pulchella, goes by many common names. Indian blanket flower is the name I've encountered the most around here in central Florida. Whatever you want to call it, it's a gorgeous flower that never fails to catch my eye! I was hoping to get sunset colors in the background here, but the storm in the distance had other plans.

Spotted beebalm or spotted horsemint

Monarda punctata

Salvinia minima

Rhexia sp.

Epipyhtes in the canopy

Spanish moss and resurrection ferns appearing green and lush in late afternoon light after a heavy rainstorm in central Florida

Fern with sori present

Palmetto frond

Purple passionflower

Passiflora incarnata

Buttonbush flower

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Pale meadow beauty

Rhexia mariana

Lemon bacopa just under the water's surface

(Bacopa caroliniana) underwater in a cypress dome swamp

Yellow milkwort

Polygala rugelii

Orange milkwort

Polygala lutea

Leavenworth's tickseed

Coreopsis leavenworthii

Pink sundew

Drosera capillaris at the edge of a cypress dome swamp during golden hour

Pink sundew

Drosera capillaris at the edge of a cypress dome swamp during golden hour