North Carolina Wildflowers

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Sarraceniaceae

Trumpets, aka Yellow Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia flava)
Johnston Co., NC
29 May 2005

Found mostly in the coastal plain & sandhills in NC, this plant occurs in bogs & wet savannas.

Trumpets (Sarracenia flava) Trumpets (Sarracenia flava)
Pender Co., NC
24 April 2004
Purple Pitcher Plant <I>(Sarracenia purpurea) Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea)
Johnston Co., NC
29 May 2005

Widespread but uncommon to rare in NC coastal plain and mountains. Found mostly in bog & wet savanna habitats.

Purple Pitcher Plant <I>(Sarracenia purpurea) Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea)
Pender Co., NC
23 April 2006
Purple Pitcher Plant <I>(Sarracenia purpurea) Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea)
Pender Co., NC
23 April 2006
Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea)
Johnston Co., NC
29 May 2005

The petals are fairly short-lived and fall off of the flower while the rest of the flower remains for weeks.


Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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