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Accession Data:

Sarracenia alata (Alph.Wood) Alph.Wood

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

  • Country of Origin: Tylor County, Texas, USA

  • Description:

    Great video by EEB alumnus Dr. Chris Martine

  • USDA Zone: 5a-9b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200600104
  • Source: Jeremiah Harris, CCPS
  • Provenance: Jeremiah Harris, Colorado Carnivorous Plant Society - Tylor County Texas
  • Accession Date: 08-31-2006
  • Bench: 2309 - Temperate Carnivores
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 03-24-2025
  • 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
2008

References (internal):

  • Aquatic Plants
  • Benthophyte
  • Carnivorous Plants
  • Plants with Extrafloral Nectaries
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
  • Accessions with Embedded Video Files
  • ECE 2019 - Scavenger Hunt
  • Accessions with Embedded Video Files
  • 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.
  4. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by No machine-readable author provided. NoahElhardt assumed (based on copyright claims). [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.

data regenerated on Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:06:03 -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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