Brunswick County, NC

Brunswick County, North Carolina, is one of the most botanically interesting places you can go. It is the home of Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews, and several other species of carnivorous plants. Native orchids are well represented as well. It isn’t even necessary to go to a park or reserve; if you look carefully, you will see many of these plants along the roadsides throughout the county. I visit as often as I can—it is just south of Wilmington, or about an hour or so north of Myrtle Beach.

The numbers below correspond to the order of the photos in the gallery slider above. Please do leave a comment if you would like ask a question or offer information about any of these plants or botanizing in Brunswick County.

(1) Botanizing in a Brunswick County preserve

(2) Rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossioides)

(3) Toothache grass (Ctenium aromaticum)

(4) Red pitcher plant, sweet pitcher plant (Sarracenia rubra)

(5) Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)

(6) Small coastal plain spreading pogonia (Cleistesiopsis oricamporum)

(7) Narrowleaf whitetop sedge (Rynchospora colorata)

(8) Swamp azalea, clammy azalea (Rhododendron viscosum)

(9) Sheep’s laurel (Kalmia angustifolia)

(10) Red pitcher plant, sweet pitcher plant (Sarracenia rubra)

(11) Coppertop pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava var. cuprea)

(12) Unidentified native azalea

(13) Purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea)

(14) Sundews (Drosera spp.)

(15) NOID

(16) Grassleaf Barbara’s-buttons (Marshallia graminifolia)