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Wiry-looking plant with small clusters of three ball-like structures called ...
Large, distinctive bird. The only other similar bird is a white pelican, which ...
Salt-tolerant plant with bubble-like segments. Many of them were reddish.
Thin, but fleshy leaves with clusters of small yellow flowers
Large, smooth leaves. No stem or flowers present. The leaf veins were white and ...
The tail was fairly thick and it had markings on the side of its face
Beautiful orange butterfly with slightly beaten-up wings. The undersides have ...
Two rare, adult sandhill cranes share a marsh with other, smaller wading birds ...
White orchid with a yellow lip. The stem and leaves are grayish-pink and the ...
I also saw some similar looking passion vines at Fort Island Gulf Beach, so I ...
I think it was a type of merganser because of its beak but I didn't get a great ...
Black mangroves don't have prop roots, but they do have pneumatophores, which ...
Pale purple flowers with a long stem and thin leaves.
Small purple flowers, stems less than a foot tall. Many of the leaves were ...
Thick, white shelf fungus with labyrinth-like pores on the underside and a ...
Long spiral shell with pronounced ridges. The snail inside the shell was ...
Small carnivorous plant in full bloom. The flowers ranged from white to purple, ...
This medium-sized raptor perched on a tree and rather patiently modeled for me. ...
Beginnings of the seeds/propagules shown in the first photo, a flower a little ...
In the first photo you can see the sori, or the spore-producing structures on ...
Juveniles are more reddish than adults, and also have the yellow tail tip. ...
The flower buds start out pink, but when fully open the front part of the ...
A distinctive flower with twisted or curly stigma and an interesting pattern at ...