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Crimson Pitcherplant
A carnivorous plant bearing nodding, brownish-red flowers and clusters of erect, hollow, pitcher-like leaves; each leaf colored at top with reddish-purple veins on a white background and topped by an erect, roundish, wavy-edged hood.
Insects and other small organisms are attracted to this plant by the colorful leaf opening and by nectar secreted inside; they fall into the collected water and are then digested by plant enzymes or by bacterial action, thereby providing essential nutrients. Sweet Pitcher-plant (S. rubra), found from North Carolina south to Florida and west to Mississippi, has a slender, erect trumpet, 4-20 inches (10-50 cm) tall and green veined with red; the flowers are very fragrant, with the odor of English Violet (Viola odorata).
This was taken at the Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens located in Devon, PA..
"Sarracenia leucophylla", also known as the white pitcher plant, is a carnivorous plant in the genus "Sarracenia". Like all the "Sarracenia", it is native to the New World and inhabits moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine savannas along the United States Gulf Coast, generally west of the Apalachicola River on the Florida Panhandle.
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