Native Terrestrial - Calopogon tuberosus syn. Calopogon pulchellus


Calopogon tuberosus

These photos were taken at Cranberry Bog, a diminishing sphagnum bog wholly contained within Buckeye Lake in Ohio.


Calopogon tuberosus with pollinator

Note the bumblebee visiting the flower on the right.

Sundews on Cranberry Bog

There were pitcher plants and several species of ferns everywhere you looked.
But you had to concentrate to discern these little sundews hidden amongst the larger plants. 

 

Photographed by Tom Franczak, who earned a merit badge for discovering (first hand) that among the other flora on Cranberry Bog
is a plentiful supply of poison sumac.