" Sarracenia purpurea"
Common pitcher plant, Indian cup, sweet pitcher plant, huntman's cup

 

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Spring. Purple -greenish flowers till 6 cm. Pitchers (Leaves-traps) narrow at the base, wider in the superior part. Perennial plant , carnivorous-insectivorous til 15 cm. Native of Northeast of America.
 
 
Frequently, daily during bloom time. Maintain humid the rest of the year.
  
 
Next to the ponds or humid places. For its curious flowers, parasol-shaped, and for the rarity of its feeding by means of insects.
  
 
Sun or demishade. It doesn't support high temperatures, reason why it should stay in cold places, even in winter.
  
   
By means of seeds or division in spring.
  
 
Rich peaty soil, always humid.
  
   
 
   
 

Another species of " Sarracenia"

 

 

Sarracenia flava --------------- ..............

Sarracenia leucophylla----------------- ...............

 

 

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