by Rich Leighton | Apr 19, 2018 | Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Wildflowers
The American lotus has extraordinarily large and beautiful pale yellow native aquatic wildflower has two amazing characteristics: one – the large circular lily pads (leaves) do not get wet on top, and water forms beads on top if splashed or rained on, but even...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 30, 2018 | Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Interesting Nature Facts, Native Orchids, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
Probably the most famous of our southern native orchids, the rare, leafless and mysterious ghost orchid of South Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas is at home in the dark, humid swamps where it regularly skips a few to up to a dozen or more years between flowering. It is...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 25, 2017 | NANP, News, Published Work
This is a post I’m really proud of. Earlier this year, I was contacted by the “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society on Florida’s Sanibel Island about the possibility of one of my images being used for an installation at the J. N. “Ding” Darling...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 29, 2017 | Birds, Florida, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
The anhinga is one of the most strange, beautiful and ancient birds of The Gulf Coast region of the Southeastern United States. When North America was split in half roughly 100 to 40 million years ago by a great inland sea called the Western Interior Seaway (...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 26, 2017 | Florida, Florida Nature Photography, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Today’s post is about one of my favorite wildflowers found in the swampy hardwood forests along the Gulf Coast – the cardinal flower. I was hiking through an area near Bristol, Florida called the “Garden of Eden Trail” when I spotted this...
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