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L104D Sarracenia leucophylla Wilkerson Bog, Bay Co. FL
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Mike
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Known as the pale pitcher plant, this plant is found from Southern Alabama westwards into East Texas. The pitchers are similar in height to Sarracenia flava, but are more slender. Variation is high from pure green pitchers to deep red/all red/maroon. Flowers are paler yellow than Sarracenia flava verging on white in some forms.
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This species in my opinion is one of the most elegant in this genus. The Pitcher can grow in some forms over 90cm tall. The pitcher is much more robust than any of the other species and the most varied; anywhere between almost pure green right through to pure red/maroon with virtually every possible variation in between. Flowers are yellow.
Recently, this species has been sub-divided into seven recognised varieties.
var. flava, var. maxima, var. atropurpurea ...
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This species is the most widespread of them all extending form Mississippi all the way up the east coast of the USA as far as the Labrador coast of eastern Canada to within 100 miles or so of the Great Slave lake of the Northwest Territory. This species consists of two sub-species and they meet at New Jersey where the two sub-species intergrade. The plant has red flowers. The sub species are;
ssp. venosa, ssp. purpurea |
This very attractive plant has white tops with red or green veins. The flower like pitchers catch large quantities of hover-flies which are attracted to the plant. The pitcher can grow up to 1m tall. This plant is unusual in having two crops of pitchers; one in Spring and another more robust set in late Summer/Autumn. Normally the plant has red flowers, but there are at laest 3 yellow flower forms including an anthocyanin free form.
This plant occurs in South West Georgia, Northwest Florida, Southern Alabama and just into Mississippi.
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This plant has a very different pitcher to all the other species. This plant traps its prey by using the "lobster pot" type of trap. The pitchers lie about horizontal to the ground and by means of downward pointing hairs guide prey to the digestion zone. The plant uses "windows" to deceive the prey to the trapping zone.
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This upright pitchers use the "window" method to deceive insects. The pitchers are hooded to cut out light at the entrance to the trap. Pitchers grow to about 25 to 30cm in height with the typical forms, but in the Okefenokee swamp in Southeast Georgia, pitchers can be over 1m tall. Flowers are yellow.
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Very similar to Sarracenia flava in many ways, but with some taxonomic differences; winter leaves (phyllodia) are sickle shaped low to the soil surface compared to Sarracenia flava where they are straight and much more upright. The front of the pitcher rim has no "spout". This plant is almost extinct in the wild now.
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This species is sub divided into five sub species;
ssp. rubra, ssp. wherryi, ssp. alabamensis ...
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