Sarracenia facts for kids
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Sarracenia is a genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants, commonly called trumpet pitchers. The genus belongs to the family Sarraceniaceae, which also contain the closely allied genera Darlingtonia and Heliamphora.
Sarracenia is a genus of carnivorous plants indigenous to the eastern seaboard of the United States, Texas, the Great Lakes area and southeastern Canada, with most species occurring only in the south-east United States (only S. purpurea occurs in cold-temperate regions). The plant's leaves have evolved into a funnel or pitcher shape in order to trap insects.
The plant attracts its insect prey with secretions from extrafloral nectaries on the lip of the pitcher leaves, as well as a combination of the leaves' color and scent. Slippery footing at the pitcher's rim, causes insects to fall inside, where they die and are digested by the plant with proteases and other enzymes.
Images for kids
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Collembola (Dicyrtomina minuta) caught inside S. purpurea
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Sarracenia alata flowers
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A Sphagnum peat bog with Sarracenia purpurea in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. These habitats are always constantly wet, acidic, and low in nutrients.
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A field with S. leucophylla. Scenes such as this used to be common in the coastal plains of the southeast US.
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Sarracenia purpurea pitchers at Brown's Lake Bog, Ohio.
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A flowering specimen of the highly variable Sarracenia purpurea
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A "pitcher plant meadow" in the Florida panhandle, with mixed varieties of Sarracenia flava: var. ornata, var. rubricorpora, and var. rugelii.
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A clump of Sarracenia oreophila in habitat
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A Sarracenia hybrid
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A wild Sarracenia flava × S. purpurea in northwestern Florida
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First illustration of a Sarracenia from L'Obel's Stirpium Adversaria Nova, 1576
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A 2-year-old S. alata seedling, with 1st yr. (small) and 2nd yr. (larger) pitchers
See also
In Spanish: Sarracenia para niños
