8.16.26 Volo Bog (tamarack woods), Ingleside, IL

 After our journey through the outer shrubland of Volo Bog, you reach the area where the iconic Tamaracks thrive. At first, it seems pretty much the same- very different dominant plant species, but very similar understory. That is, until, you see a great big pile of the endangered Purple Pitcher Plant- plus two of its flowers!!! Conveniently, they are within three feet of the info sign about Purple Pitcher Plants. That, my friend, is really weird*.

*that is seriously what actually happened to my family and I,


Some extremely vibrant Rough Speckled Shield Lichen

Tamarack canopy

Milky-white Toothed Polypore

Occasionally in the bog 

Unidentified mushrooms

Amazing!!! A huge mat of Purple Pitcher Plants!!!

The very strange flower of a Purple Pitcher plant. It looks like two starfish attacking each other

Two flowers

While the flowers had some purple on them, the main plant did not. Still Purple Pitcher Plant, and still rally cool!!!

Splitgills

Stereum mushrooms

Unidentified mushrooms

Rotten mushroom

Tamaracks with a lot of Common Greenshield on it

Unidentified lichen

Cool branch

Fern spore body


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