When I took the photo above it was because of the bright red in the middle of all the green. It may as well had been a lighthouse. At the time I didn’t know what it was called. After researching, I found it is called the Cardinal Flower. A favorite among the hummingbird crowd. This flower grows abundantly on the banks of some of West Virginia’s rivers and streams. The river in the photo is Big Coal River and the body of water is called Snakehole.
June 9th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I have a similar picture, red in all the green, of a black butterfly on a Cardinal flower along the banks of the Middle River at Audra State Park.
“It may as well have been a lighthouse” is a good description.