Sarracenia rubra
Family: Sarraceniaceae
Common Name: sweet pitcher plant
Modified leaves form distinctive, upright, slender-fluted pitchers of variable height ranging from 12” to 18” tall. Pitchers are narrow, each one having a somewhat horizontal lid that arches over the tube opening and, among other things, prevents most rain from entering the tube. Tube opening (mouth) is about 1” wide. Pitchers are typically green with distinctive but variable amounts of red veining. Pitcher lids are usually red on top. Pitchers which emerge in spring are smaller with less distinctive red veining that the larger pitchers which emerge in summer. This species infrequently produces slender, linear, winter leaves (phyllodia) in warm winter locations.
Locality: Ex Hort. Harvest: December 2024