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The name instead derives from the Greek helos, meaning "marsh", so a more accurate translation of their scientific name would be marsh pitcher plants. [2] Species in the genus Heliamphora are carnivorous plants that consist of a modified leaf form that is fused into a tubular shape. They have evolved mechanisms to attract, trap, and kill ...
Like all carnivorous plants, pitcher plants all grow in locations where the soil is too poor in minerals and/or too acidic for most plants to survive. Pitcher plants supplement available nutrients and minerals (which plants normally obtain through their roots) with the constituents of their insect prey. [citation needed]
Sarracenia trap insects using pitchers with nectar and slippery footing around the lip The anatomy of S. purpurea. Sarracenia (/ ˌ s ær ə ˈ s iː n i ə / or / ˌ s ær ə ˈ s ɛ n i ə /) is a genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants, commonly called trumpet pitchers.
The typical form is a relatively small plant with pitchers about 25–30 centimetres (10–12 in) in height. An especially large form, with pitchers up to 90–120 centimetres (3–4 ft) high, grows in the Okefenokee marshes, [2] at the border between Georgia and Florida.
Oldest known illustration of Sarracenia purpurea, from Clusius's Rariorum plantarum historia, cf. 18, 1601 Seeds. S. purpurea also traps juvenile spotted salamanders with enough regularity that nearly 20% of surveyed plants were found to contain one or more salamanders in a 2019 study. The salamanders were observed to die within three to ...
As such, growth of carnivorous pitchers is plastic: as soil nitrogen increases, Sarracenia produces fewer pitchers. [9] The pitchers originate from a rhizome and die back during the winter dormancy. Plants of the genus Sarracenia occur mostly in Sphagnum bogs. Most Sarraceniaceae have tall, narrow pitchers that are vertical or nearly so.
Sarracenia alabamensis, also known as the cane-brake pitcher plant, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia.Like all Sarracenia, it is native to the New World. S. alabamensis subsp. alabamensis is found only in central Alabama, while subsp. wherryi is found in southwestern Alabama, eastern Mississippi and Florida.
Cephalotus (/ ˌ s ɛ f ə ˈ l oʊ t ə s / or / ˌ k ɛ f ə ˈ l oʊ t ə s /; Greek: κεφαλή "head", and οὔς/ὠτός "ear", to describe the head of the anthers) [3] is a genus which contains one species, Cephalotus follicularis the Albany pitcher plant, [4] a small carnivorous pitcher plant.