Trip Report-Gasquet, CA - Part 2 - Darlingtonia, Pinguicula

[maxposwillo]

About a week ago I headed to the Gasquet area of Northern California in search of Darlingtonia californica, Pinguicula macroceras, and Drosera rotundifolia.

Site 3

This site is a very large serpentine seep alongside a highway south of Gasquet, CA. It is almost a wall of Darlingtonia californica and Pinguicula macroceras.

Site 4

This site is known as the Darlingtonia Trail, the Darlingtonia Trail is a trail built by the goverment to raise awarenesses of Darlingtonia californica, there are several information boards as well as two viewing platforms.

 

[cmm889]

awesome!

awesome!


awesome!

 

[Fryster]

oh man, those cobras are all red‼ I never knew that they could "tan" up so nicely.

Beautiful!!

Thanks for the VERY COOL pics‼

 

[xvart]

Phenomenal! Some of those Pinguicula macroceras are huge. I love how they are all growing on that hillside. Very impressive.

Very nice photography, too. Thanks for sharing.

xvart.

 

[Halt]

The redness is due to dormacy.

Oh wow, the government? I thought they didn't care.

 

[jimscott]

In the immortal words of Sylvester, "Thousands of them!"

 

[maxposwillo]

The redness is partially due to cold temperatures, the other half is because the plants in the Gasquet area are much redder than those found elsewhere.