Species PlantsYellow Pitcher Plant

Yellow Pitcher Plant

Sarracenia flava

UncommonPlant
Illustration of Yellow Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia flava)

Yellow Pitcher Plant is one of the tallest pitcher plant species, with yellow-green pitchers reaching 3 feet and producing large, nodding yellow flowers with a mushroom-like smell. It grows in the longleaf pine savannas and Carolina bays of the southeastern Atlantic coastal plain. Like all pitcher plants, it obtains nitrogen from insects that fall into the fluid-filled pitchers.

Habitat
Longleaf pine savannas, seepage bogs, and Carolina bays of the southeastern US
Diet
Carnivorous; insects trapped in pitchers; flowers pollinated by bumblebees
How common
Uncommon

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