Grassy Waters Photos

1. Alligator Flag

2. Sweetscent

Pluchea odorata

3. Marsh Fern

Thelypteris palustris

Small, narrow-leaved, the veins not forming an inverted Y under the notch, but rather rising up to the sides of the notch.

Note similar species:

Hottentot Fern is larger, not fuzzy, and has the vein under the north forming an inverted Y.

Downy Shield Fern is larger and has purple in the stalk and major veins

Kunth's Marsh Fern is very fuzzy.

4. Persimmon

Diospyros ebenum

5. Rose-Gentian (Marsh-Pink)

Sabatia grandiflora

6. Coreopsis

Coreopsis species (C. floridana, C. leavenworthii)

7. Tracy Beaksedge

Rhynchospora tracyi

8. Arrow-Arum

Peltrandra virgnica

9. Arrowhead

Sagittaria sp.

10. Northern Needleleaf

Tillandsia balbisiana

Much narrower than Cardinal Airplant, with tighter inflorescence, the leaves contorted, with a little potbelly