May in many areas of the northern hemisphere would be considered late spring. In central and southern Florida, it is decidedly summer-like already with temperatures in the 90s and a blazing sun that will burn your skin in a matter of minutes. Here are a few flowers that you might encounter in Florida at this time. It is by no means an exhaustive list, as many more species are in flower than just these...in fact, at any time of the year in Florida, as many as 40 species might be in flower somewhere in our wild areas. Click each thumbnail to go to the full profile page for the species on my website.
Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus)
Scarlet Ladies Tresses (Sacoila lanceolata)
Florida Dancing Lady Orchid (Tolumnia bahamensis)
Water Spider Orchid (Habenaria repens)
Spring Ladies Tresses (Spiranthes vernalis)
Rose Pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides)
Florida Butterfly Orchid (Encyclia tampensis)
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Saw some grass pinks here today and Pogonia a few weeks ago.
I've noticed that. I asked the botanist down the hall when Cardinal Plant flowers. His answer was something like between February and November. Quite a big range.
Amazing fact that you are putting this series together. The part that I find is always missing from these discussions is how to put everything together especially on flowers. How do you manage to get you mind to connect what they eye sees to a technique that fulfills that vision? Are there exercises that you find work to develop this sense or is it just persistent trial and error?
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