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Sweet pitcherplant

Sarracenia rubra

Also called Sweet pitcher plant, Red Pitcherplant

Sweet pitcherplant
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. NoahElhardt assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Sarraceniaceae (American pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
SE. North Carolina to W. Georgia
Climate
subtropical

About

Sarracenia rubra, also known as the sweet or purple pitcher plant, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia. Like all Sarracenia, it is native to the New World. Its range extends from southern Mississippi, through southern Alabama, the Florida panhandle and Georgia, to the coastal plains of North Carolina and South Carolina.

Other Sarracenia plants

Alabama Canebrake Pitcher Plant · Yellow trumpets · Sarracenia charlesmoorei · Yellow Pitcher Plant · Mountain Sweet Pitcherplant · Crimson pitcherplant · Hooded pitcherplant · Moore's Pitcherplant · Sarracenia naczii · Green pitcherplant · Parrot pitcherplant · Purple pitcherplant

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sarracenia rubra by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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