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Real live cps!

I was up north of here, in the middle of nowhere, access by helicopter spot working on a archaeological dig/native traditional use project last week. Our campsite was beside a beautiful bog lake with big floating shelves of sphagnum around the edges. I went down to take a look and it was covered with Drosera rotundifolia! And later I took the boat out on the lake (yes, it too came in by helicopter) and it was full of U. macrorhiza - so much so that everyone had assumed that it was elodea or some similar pond weed.

So it ain't no trip to South America, but it was still pretty cool. And I now have specimens of D. rotundifolia that are probably hardy to -40 or 50C.
 
Gracious! -50C? That's one hardy plant! How far north were you (where is "here" in the "north of here" part)?
 
It's always fun to see things amazing plants in the wild!
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My goal is to see every native species in my State (MI) 5 down, 11 to go.
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THat's some excellent work there!!
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I'd like to try something like that here, but I think the caymans would get to me before I'd see anything.
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Jœl
 
I got to see lots int he wild on one single lake last summer, myself...
Lets see if I remember them...

U. purpurea
U. vulgaris
U. intermedia
U. cornuta
U. gibba
U. resupinata

D. intermedia
D. rotundifolia

S. purpurea

All on the same lake. Spectacular. It really gives you a differnet perspective on these plants, when you see them all growing together where they belong...
 
"Here" is Fort St. John, BC - temps routinely go below -30C in the winter, so I figure on freak occasions they would get below -40C. It's a bit colder still ~150km north where the project was. I think it snowed there last night.

Not too many CPs to see around here. I have seen U. minor, and apparently there are rare occurances of U. purpurea (representing the NW limit of its range.) I have not seen any of the native pings.
 
you didn't wild collect those cps, did you, glenn?
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