Difference between revisions of "Sarracenia purpurea"

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   herbaceous

Height: 10 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Width: 24 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 24.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early spring, mid spring, late spring
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 2 to 9
Flower features: red, pink
Scientific Names

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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation
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Scientific Names



Read about Sarracenia purpurea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Sarracenia purpurea, Linn. The common pitcher-plant of the N. and the one on which the genus was founded. Fig. 3551. Pitchers ascending, in rosettes of 3-6, 2-10 in. long, widest toward middle, narrowed below and upward, green to dark purple; lid upright or slightly inclined outward with fine hispid hairs over inner lid or attractive surface; wing broad, prominent: fls. 1 1/4- 1 3/4 in. wide; sepals and petals greenish purple to purple. In wet sandy muck or by swamp margins from Labrador and Minn. to N. Fla. and Ala.; flowering from fourth week in March in N. Fla. to second week of Aug. in Lab. B M. 849. L.B.C. 4:308. F.S. 10: 1076. G.C. II. 15:821. Mn. 1:81. G.L. 27:179.—Very variable in coloring from bright green in shady places to dark purple in sunny situations. According to Loddiges, writing in 1823, this species was "cultivated before the year 1640 by Tradescant, who was gardener to King Charles the First." Var. heterophylla, Eaton. Lvs. pale green: fls. yellow-green to yellow. Very rare in Mass., W. N. Y., and S. N. J. CH


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