Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Sarraceniaceae
Sarracenia rubra ssp. rubra

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Sarraceniaceae
Sarracenia rubra ssp. rubra

LESS THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Sarraceniaceae
089-01-002
Sarracenia rubra

Common Name:
Sweet Pitcherplant, Redflower Pitcherplant

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in sandhill seepage bogs, pocosins, wet savannas, per Weakley's Flora



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...Wet

Leaves:
Simple

Flower:
Spring
Maroon outside, Green inside
Bisexual
5 persistent sepals
5 petals

Fruit:
Summer
Capsule

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p308
Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p219
Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p079
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p097
Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p115
Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p062
Wildflowers of the Eastern US p021




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June
Pickens County SC
Pickens County Museum

 

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