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The North American Pitcher plants differ greatly from
their tropical Nepenthes cousins. Sarracenia are temperate plants that
produce a variety of colorful and hollow leaves that form pitfall traps.
Insects feed on nectar along the edges of the slippery mouth of the
pitchers, lose their precarious balance and fall into the pitchers, from
which they are unable to escape. The pitchers then digest the insects,
either by way of enzymes secreted by the leaf, or through the help of
bacteria, depending on the species.
Sarracenia leucophylla 'Tarnok'
Sarracenia leucophylla 'Tarnok' (The white-topped pitcher) -
Sarracenia leucophylla produces tall trumpet pitchers whose tops are white and
red. In the wild, leucophylla pitcher tops can range from white and green to
white and crimson and a wide range of color variations in between. 'Tarnok' is a
form that grows green pitchers with white and red tops, with infertile
flowers that have a bizarre appearance. Our available stock consists of
juvenile plants that have not yet reached flowering age.
The Purple Pitcher Plant is a species of
cold-hardy Sarracenia that are found as far north as Canada. It produces
recumbent, open pitchers that hug the ground as a large rosette. S. purpurea
are one of the few species of Sarracenia that collects and holds
rainwater. Insects that are attracted to the nectars secreted by the lip
of the pitcher fall in and drown. The insects are broken down partially
by enzymes secreted by the leaves, but primarily by bacteria. The
nutrients are then absorbed into the leaves.
This is a subspecies of Sarracenia
purpurea, specifically the Northern variety of the purple pitcher
plant, which is found in the colder sections of the Sarracenia
purpurea climate range. This plant is propagated through rhizome
divisions.
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