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Accession Data:

Sarracenia flava L.

  • Common Name: Yellow Pitcher Plant
  • Family: Sarraceniaceae Dumort.

  • Country of Origin: Southeastern N. America - Virginia and N. Carolina to Florida
  • Habitat: Wet pinelands and bogs.

  • Description: The Yellow Pitcher Plant is a carnivorous plant that prefers wasps, bees, and all types of flies.It needs high moisture therefore is usually found among mosses. The large erect leaves possess desirable ornamental value. Its flowers are yellow rising in the spring, born on stalks that clear the foliage.

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199200229
  • Source: N. Carolina
  • Accession Date: 04-28-1988
  • Bench: 2310 - Temperate Carnivores
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 07-21-2024
  • Restrictions:
    • CITES Appendix II Listed Plant

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: asterids
  • Order: Ericales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Sarraceniaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008

References (internal):

  • Aquatic Plants
  • Benthophyte
  • Carnivorous Plants
  • Plants with Extrafloral Nectaries
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Alabama / Florida / Georgia / North Carolina / South Carolina / Virginia

References (external):

  1. Plants For A Future Website
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, September 08, 2017.
  3. Sarracenia flava at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Friday, September 08, 2017.

data regenerated on Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:54:02 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Sarracenia flava

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Current Accessions in the Sarraceniaceae

  • Sarracenia alata W/C
  • Sarracenia alata W/C
  • Sarracenia alata W/C
  • Sarracenia flava
  • Sarracenia flava var. flava W/C
  • Sarracenia flava var. rubricorpa
  • Sarracenia leucophylla W/C
  • Sarracenia leucophylla
  • Sarracenia minor
  • Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis
  • Sarracenia oreophila W/C
  • Sarracenia psittacina
  • Sarracenia purpurea
  • Sarracenia purpurea ssp. purpurea W/C
  • Sarracenia rosea 'Manmaru'
  • Sarracenia rosea
  • Sarracenia rubra ssp. alabamensis
  • Sarracenia rubra ssp. jonesii W/C
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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