Sarracenia leucophylla
White pitcher plant ( Sarracenia leucophylla )
The White Pitcher Plant ( Sarracenia leucophylla ) is a carnivorous plant from the family of Pitcher plants ( Sarraceniaceae ). The species is native to the southeastern United States.
Description
The creeping rhizomes are growing up to 3 inches thick. The upright leaves, hoses, reaching heights up to 120 inches and are externally covered with fine hair. The coloration is very variable, usually the tubes in the lower part are green, in the section immediately below the opening as well as on the cover pure white, with more or less strong green or red venation. The lid is down slightly arched to the wavy edge. The White pitcher plant forms in winter occasionally true phyllodes, but usually only phyllodienartige hoses with stunted covers and hoses. The unique feature within the genus is the two-time education of hoses during the year, namely, once in spring and once in late summer / early fall.
The flowering period extends from early March to late April. The on top of reddish tinged stems of the inflorescences are usually the same size as the tubing. 4 to 7 inches in diameter measured flowers smell sweet. The support and sepals are dark red to maroon. The petals are bright red to brown, 3 to 5 inches long and strap -shaped with rounded ends. The stamen is often red, the stamp umbrella-shaped, externally hairy tomentose and often tinged with red. Style and ovary are more or less red. The fruit is a capsule that opens from the rear.
Dissemination
The White pitcher plant is native to United States, precisely, on the south-western Georgia on the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama to the extreme southeast Mississippi. The plants are found in pine savannas and wetlands, generally on sandy peat soils and form large stocks of, of which, however, many are increasingly disappearing.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described in 1817 by Constantine S. Rafinesque - Schmaltz, the species name comes from the Greek and means something like " weißblättrig ". A long being used is synonym is Sarracenia drummondii.