I went out today with Nancy Bissett to look for McFarlin's lupine in the Pollard Road area. It is there. The question is what to do about it.
Some of it is on the 100-foot-wide CSX right of way.
Some of it is on the property that will be used to build additional tracks.
There is additional scrub--badly overgrown-- on property between Pollard Road and the tracks owned by Winter Haven and planned as the site of a new park. Lupine (we also found Lupinus diffusus) could pop up there, too, when the land is cleared.
There is also scrub on the other side of the track on property owned by the Atkins family, but it's unclear whether any lupine is there since we did not have permission to enter., though it was clear there were other listed plants, such as Bonamia grandiflora, Polygonella basiramia and Polygonella myriophyllla.
I wonder whether the seeds from any of these plants could end up being used at Lake Blue to establish another population on protected and half-assed managed land.
