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Scientific name:

Sarracenia purpurea

Vernacular name:

Pitcherplant


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Pitcherplant

Scientific name: Sarracenia purpurea L.

Diagnostic features
Pitchers up to 30cm, green, marbled with red, curved, decumbent; hood erect.
Pedicels up to 60cm.
Flowers nodding, c.5cm across, with purplish-red petals and sepals.
Stigma c.3cm across, greenish.

Chromosome number: (2n=26).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; planted in wet peat-bogs and well naturalized.

Distribution
Central Ireland (planted in Roscommon in 1906, later from there to otherplaces), a few less permanent sites scattered in England and Scotland; Northeast North America.

This species is keyed out on Page 3778: Sarraceniaceae, Sarracenia in the Text Key.

Sarracenia purpurea (Pitcherplant)
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