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Darlingtonia State Natural Site, Florence, OR

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Darlingtonia State Natural Site

A small Oregon state botanical site built around a boardwalk through a fen where rare carnivorous cobra lilies grow.

Florence, OR

About Darlingtonia State Natural Site

Darlingtonia State Natural Site is an 18-acre botanical park near Florence on the Oregon coast. It exists to protect one plant species, the Darlingtonia californica, also called the cobra lily, which is the only carnivorous plant in the state park system. A boardwalk leads visitors out into a fen where the plants grow in wet, sphagnum-rich ground. The plants trap insects inside hollow, hooded leaves, and they bloom with purple petals in late spring and early summer. The site has a parking area, the boardwalk, and a small picnic area, with nearby vegetation including rhododendron, spruce, cedar, and shore pine.

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