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Accession Data:

Sarracenia alata (Alph.Wood) Alph.Wood

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

  • Country of Origin: USA

  • Description: Great video by EEB alumnus Dr. Chris Martine

  • USDA Zone: 5a-9b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200600103
  • Source: Jeremiah Harris, CCPS
  • Provenance: Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA
  • Accession Date: 08-31-2006
  • Bench: 2310 - Temperate Carnivores
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 04-07-2025
  • 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
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009

References (internal):

  • Aquatic Plants
  • Benthophyte
  • Carnivorous Plants
  • Plants with Extrafloral Nectaries
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • Accessions with Embedded Video Files
  • Scavenger Hunt - Grades 9-12 (generic)
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Texas / Alabama / Louisiana / Mississippi

References (external):

  1. Sarracenia alata at Botanical Society of America. Last accessed on Monday, April 04, 2016.
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, September 08, 2017.
  3. Sarracenia alata at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Friday, September 08, 2017.

data regenerated on Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:06:02 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Sarracenia alata

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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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