Images

Gulf fritillary butterfly at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Young lubber grasshopper with black and yellow markings, atop a post at
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Turtles swimming among the periphyton in the canal between impoundment #7
and #2b at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Freshwater swamp in front of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Visitor
Center.

A boardwalk trail through the cypress swamp at Loxahatchee National Wildlife
Refuge.

The red-tinted fronds of a leather fern, at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Swamp canopy and sky reflected in the swamp waters of Loxahatchee National
Wildlife Refuge.

Metal culverts within this canal's banks transport water between the
impoundments and the canal at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

A close-up of cattails found within the predominately cattail marsh of
impoundment #8 at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

A cypress tree supports the flowering cardinal wild pine bromeliad, at
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Hot-pink pentas star-shaped flowers bud and grow in the butterfly garden at
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Looking south, cattails and pickerelweed within impoundment #7 at
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

A great egret flying above the predominately cattail marsh of impoundment #8
at the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

A male boat-tailed grackle standing in grasses by the water's edge of
impoundment #7, at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Freshwater swamp covered with the aquatic plants duckweed and water
spangles, at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

A turkey vulture soars high in the sky above the Marsh Trail at Loxahatchee
National Wildlife Refuge.

The gray leaves of spanish moss can be seen dangling from cypress trees all
along the Cypress Swamp Boardwalk at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Red patches of "baton-rouge" lichen stand out against the green understory of a
cypress swamp at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Dark green fronds of a shield fern stand out against a mostly royal fern
background, at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Foliose lichens on a tree trunk at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Tiny blue flowers of nettleleaf velvetberry grow in the butterfly garden at
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.