Delicate Blooms produce Giant Leaflets of the Swamp

This delicate bloom is one-half inches tall and from it spawns the giant leaflet of the swamp! In the heart of the Cypress swamps the stalks of the giant Alligator Flag can grow up to 9 feet tall with arrow shaped leaves that can span one foot in diameter and three feet in length.

Alligator Flag (Thalia geniculata) was named such because the tops would wave like flags when the powerful alligator tail caused movement below as he was swimming through the thickets of the swamp. Thus an indicator from far away.