Splinter Hill Bog, Alabama

This is the third time that we have visited the Splinter Hill Bog in Alabama. It is noted for its great variety of carnivorous plants – 12 species. Yesterday we had perhaps the best day for seeing a nice variety. We had 4 species of pitcher plants, a sundew and a bladderwort. Not bad for an hour visit.

White-topped pitcher plant. Flower on the left, developing pitcher on the right.

A perfect white-topped pitcher plant. An inportant aspect of these beautiful plants is that they have moths that live in them.

Here’s another plant with Susan coaxing a moth out. The moths do not like leaving the plants. Their larvae are leaf borers that feed on the flesh of the pitcher, which is a modified leaf. And each species of pitcher plant has a unique species of moth and flesh fly that live in them.

Pale pitcher plant on the left and a pale pitcher plant on the right.

Tracy’s sundew. The leaves on these are perhaps ten inches long and they absolutely glisten in the sun.

This is a yellow star grass, not carnivorous, but still rather pretty.