Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Unmistakable with its 2-foot tall reddish-green to green trumpet-like tubes whose upper end and hood are bright white with red veins. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

The pitcher plant has not only unique leaves, but very strange flowers as well. Read more at the Botanical Society of America.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sarracenia leucophylla   FAMILY Sarraceniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Sarracenia leucophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Sarracenia drummondii

COMMON NAME:
Whitetop Pitcherplant, Crimson Pitcherplant

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October    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Hood erect or ascending; a network of red venation surrounds white tissue, per Weakley's Flora.

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November    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Areas of white tissue all around summit of pitcher and throughout hood, per Weakley's Flora.

 COMPARE Pitcherplant species

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sarracenia leucophylla   FAMILY Sarraceniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sarracenia leucophylla   FAMILY Sarraceniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Sarracenia leucophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sarracenia drummondii