When Plants Bite Back – Spoon-leaved Sundew
This weekend I spent some time in an abandoned cranberry bog – although it has not been actively cultivated for years, it still produces a decent amount of cranberries. With no one to weed the bog, however, the plant diversity has increased substantially. There are now sapling trees (e.g., gray birch, pitch pine), ladies’ tresses orchids (Spiranthes sp.), and a variety of aster and goldenrod species. With all this additional growth, and without a functional water control system, rather than…