The California Pitcher Plant, or cobra lily, is one of North America's most unusual carnivorous plants, with cobra-hooded pitchers that trap insects. It grows only in cold, serpentine seeps and bogs in northern California and southern Oregon. The plant obtains nitrogen from digested insects rather than from the nutrient-poor soils it inhabits.
Habitat
Cold serpentine seeps and mountain bogs in northern California and Oregon
Diet
Carnivorous; traps insects for nutrients in nitrogen-poor soils
How common
Rare
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