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All the pure sarraceniasAlthough it's hard to believe, they can sometimes be a bit tricky to find for sale. And it is that hybrids are so beautiful and rare that little by little they have been winning the battle of the conquest of human hearts, among which I include myself.
However, knowing and growing them is very interesting, not only because from them you can create your own hybrids, but also because have a high ornamental value.
Saracenias are carnivorous plants native to the eastern United States, where they are sadly highly threatened. There are several causes, such as loss of habitat, fires, agriculture, the trade in jugs for use in bouquets of flowers ... pure species have lost 97.5% of their habitat (more information on this subject in Horticulture, Trade and Conservation of the Genus Sarracenia in the Southeastern States of America: Proceedings of a Meeting Held at the Atlanta Botanical Garden).
Which are?
Sarracenia alabamensis
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La Sarracenia alabamensis, known as caraña brake pitcher plant, is a plant native to central Alabama, in the United States. Develop traps that reach a height of between 20 and 65 centimeters, and they are a nice green color. It blooms in spring, producing crimson flowers. Tends to form large groups.
sarracenia alata
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La sarracenia alata it is a carnivore native to southern Alabama and eastern Texas. Develop pitcher-shaped pale green or green traps from between 50 and 60 centimeters tall. Its flowers bloom in spring, and can be white, yellow, reddish, cream or white.
Saracenia Flava.
La Saracenia Flava. is a species known as a native yellow carnivorous plant from southern Alabama to southern Virginia and South Carolina. It reaches a height of between 50 centimeters and one meter, and its traps are green with red lines. It blooms during the spring, which is when it blooms yellow flowers.
Sarracenia jonesii
La Sarracenia jonesii it is an endemic plant of the swamps between North Carolina and South Carolina. It grows between 21 and 73 centimeters, and develops reddish or reddish-green traps. It produces garnet flowers from spring to early summer.
Sarracenia leucophylla
La Sarracenia leucophylla It is a carnivorous plant native to the Gulf Coast of the United States. Its height is variable: can grow from 30 centimeters to the meter. The traps it produces are green, with the end with white spots and reddish lines. It blooms in spring, and its flowers are reddish in color.
sarracenia minor
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La sarracenia minor, known as a hooded carnivorous plant, is a species native to the southeastern United States. Their traps have a cap that is certainly very reminiscent of what hoods look like, and reach a height of 25 to 35 centimeters. These are green with some translucent white spots. It blooms during spring, and its flowers are yellow.
Sarracenia oreophila
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La Sarracenia oreophila, popularly called green pitcher, is a carnivorous plant native to northern Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia. Grows up to 60 centimeters tall, developing green traps once they finish maturing, but reddish and even orange when they are young. In spring large yellow flowers sprout.
Sarracenia psittacina
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La Sarracenia psittacina is a plant native to the southeastern United States known as the Parrot Pitcher Plant or Parrot Pitcher Plant. Unlike other species of the genus, it forms rosettes of leaves that do not rise much from the ground, just about 10-15 centimeters. These leaves are traps whose appearance is very similar to that of parrots, and they are green except towards the end that they may have white spots.
sarracenia purpurea
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La sarracenia purpurea It is a native plant of the north and east of the United States, it is even found in Canada. Like S. psittacina, it produces rosettes of leaves, but its leaves are reddish or green / reddish (which gives it the surname) with a height of about 20 centimeters maximum. It blooms in spring, producing reddish flowers.
sarracenia rosea
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La sarracenia rosea It is a species for a long time it was considered a varieties of S.purpurea; specifically, its scientific name was S. purpurea subsp. venous var burkii. However, it differs from it by having slightly different leaves, light pink petals, and by producing larger flowers on shorter stems. Of course, it is also native to the Gulf Coast and reaches a height of approximately 20 centimeters.
sarracenia rubra
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La sarracenia rubra it is a carnivorous plant native from southern Mississippi to South Carolina. Reaches 65 centimeters in height, developing yellowish-green traps with red nerves. It blooms in spring, with red flowers as well.
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