A southern Michigan bog

The other day we visited the bog at the Eddy Discover Center in Washtenaw County, Michigan. It’s a favorite place for us in June.

It’s probably a mile walk from where we were parked to the bog. The trail goes through a beech-maple forest and ends at the bog. Near the bog the trail becomes a boardwalk.

The bog has a large number of carnivorous plants such as these flowering pitcher plants.

Here’s a round-leaf sunder, another carnivorous plant. Both carnivorous plants grow in a layer of wet mosses, mostly sphagnum mosses but also several other mosses.

Grass-pink orchids were flowering.

Poison sumac was also flowering.

This is one of the few places in southern Michigan were we see tamaracks, which are deciduous conifers.

Marsh cinquefoil was also blooming.

There were even insects like this widow skimmer, an easily identified dragonfly.

More later…