Wildflowers of the Everglades |Butterwort flower is featured in
the Everglades, December 21, 2012. (Tim Chapman/Miami
Herald/MCT)| They're so easy to miss in a landscape almost
monotonously green. But for naturalist Roger Hammer, it's the
small, scattered drops of color that stand out among the slash
pines and saw palmetto. Wildflowers. The vast Everglades is home
to hundreds of them. Some are spectacular but most are small and
subtle. Some are fragrant, others poisonous. With the exception
of a few big names - notably, the rare ghost orchid made famous
in a best-selling book - many are largely unknown and unnoticed,
at least outside a small group of scientists, enthusiasts and,
unfortunately, poachers. "The average person driving by has no
idea of what is out here," said Hammer, as he hiked the
northeastern corners of the Big Cypress National Preserve in an
ongoing quest to find and photograph an exceptionally scarce
yellow bloom called the Fakahatchee burmania. If Hammer - a
longtime Miami-Dade County parks