Sarracenia oreophila

Sarracenia oreophila

The Green pitcher plant ( Sarracenia oreophila ) is a species of the family of Pitcher plants.

Description

The plant has a certain resemblance to Sarracenia flava, but remains small. The tubes are 20 to 70 cm high and have a yellow-green color. There is a cover which is finely veined red with lots of sunshine to red-violet on the tube entrance. The first tubes are often fully formed even at the appearance of the flower. In the summer listening to the tube production - the plant slowly begins with the formation of phyllodes that are available until spring. Due to the Phyllodienbildung are the dry summer in their natural habitat. The phyllodes are about 5 to 20 cm long and are more numerous, the darker is the location. The rhizome reached a thickness of 1 to 1.5 cm.

The flowers ( 5 to 8.5 cm in diameter) are yellow-green to pale yellow in color. You sit at a 40 to 70 cm tall flower stalks. Bloom time is May to early June.

Dissemination, risk and status

To find this is now very rare plant only in northeastern Alabama and North Carolina. It is considered critically endangered and is therefore in the CITES since 1981, Annex I listed.

Botanical history

Green pitcher plant was discovered in 1875 by Hugh M. Neisler. Due to the similarity with the yellow pitcher plant ( Sarracenia flava), the plant in 1900 by TJ Kearney as Sarracenia flava var oreophila was filed, but not a valid value, so the taxon is a nomen nudum. Edgar Theodore Wherry 1933 remarked on the basis of cultivated plants and the differences erstbeschrieb the taxon as a separate article