Meadowview Internship 2011

[Wire Man]

What a purp caught in one night.

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D. capillaris

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U. radiata, one of the plants I discovered by chance in Surry while waiting for the rest of the Meadowview crew to catch up on Avery's Mill Pond.

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N. copelandii

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S. jonesii. This is a spectacular plant!

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S. rubra ssp. gulfensis

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S. alabamensis ssp. wherryi

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S. "Georgia fall line sand hill"

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S. leuco

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More of jonesii

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More wherryi

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S. flava var. ornata

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wherryi

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One of our beautiful seedling. S. "Powhatan" x leuco "burgundy"

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A nice leuco leaf.

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D. rotundifolia flower.

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[Fred P]

Nice shot of that jonesii.....I like it!!

[Wire Man]

It's one of my favorite plants. I had to have one before the internship ended. It's an usually tall genotype, too, a little over 2 feet tall and a coppery red color before the first frost. The site where they're from is even more impressive, from what I've heard. It's definitely a species worth protecting.

[GregNY]

Awesome pics as always. Quite the gallery to go through.

That Jonesii is something else!

[Wire Man]

I still have more photos to post. Thanks for the feedback! I have some print available on my DeviantArt account.

The one I brought home is working on a nice, tall pitcher. I'm looking forward to doing a giveaway of this plant in a few years.

[Adam]

Powhattan x leuco red is great!
Your friend got to meet Betty White? Now or when she was younger? I envy her so much.

[Wire Man]

She met her last year. So far we have 3 phenotypes of "Powhatan" x leuco "burgundy." One is this one, another is yellow with really dark veins, and the third one is all red.

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Here's my least favorite thing in the plant beds, a giant water bug. This thing is about the size of my BlackBerry, and will make a grown man scream like a little girl with one bite. This is the molted shell.

Shell by Wire Man, on Flickr

Satyr butterfly on orange milkweed.

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What we thought was Tetragonotheca, but isn't.

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Baby assassin bug!

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Not Tetragonotheca

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We found this on the side of the road.

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Some kind of native orchid.

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A very large jumping spider.

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This is a ditch in Westmoreland County that used to have Drosera intermedia in it. It's entirely too overgrown, polluted, and trashed for sundews to survive anymore.

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Who throws a TV in a pond?!

Trash by Wire Man, on Flickr

We found a logging road that looked promising.

I found this butterfly

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The rest of the team found this lily.

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This is what the majority of the ponds in the area look like. Weedy, neglected, and awful.

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I was going to take this, but paper wasps built their nest in the brain case.

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We may have lost Drosera intermedia in one site, but we found a new one!

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We found about 6 plants on the North bank.

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[Wire Man]

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Utricularia vulgaris

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Ripple by Wire Man, on Flickr

U. geminiscapa. Note the cleistogomous flower.

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Richard found a wet spot on the pond banks. I did too, in a more idiotic manner.

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Bladderwort flower.

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Merdania, a nasty invasive. It has dominated the North side of the pond.

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Cyprus.

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[gea8579]

Love the pics of the Jonesii, you truly have an artistic eye

[Wire Man]

Well, I am an art major, and won the senior award (for some wearable sculptures). It's hard not to make jonesii look good. The backlighting helps a lot.