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Habitat: Pine savannas, seepage bogs, pocosins. In the remote centers of peat domes and large peat-filled Carolina bays in NC, Sarracenia flava is sometimes very abundant, occasionally the dominant plant over areas exceeding several square kilometers
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Narrowed base of the hood usually purple-spotted, its sides strongly rolled away from orifice, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Scapes shorter than pitchers, per Weakley's Flora.
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The drooping, bright lemon-yellow petals usually drop within a week or so, per Orchids, Carnivorous Plants, and Other Wildflowers of the Green Swamp, NC (Fowler, 2015).
Habitat: Seepage bogs, sandy shores of shallow streams
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Resembles S. flava, but the pitchers pale green and petals yellowish-green, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs, pocosins, wet savannas
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Flowers grow singly atop leafless stems about as tall as the leaves, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Leaves erect, 4-28" tall, reddish to greenish, with a rather small orifice, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Hoods are held horizontal and held closely over the orifice, per Weakley's Flora.
Habitat: Bogs, cataract seeps over bedrock
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Flowers nod, and they have a large, rather flat, umbrella-shaped style, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Flowers have 5 incurved, deciduous, red-purple petals only 1" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Hoods are ascending, leaving the orifice exposed, per Weakley's Flora.
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Summer pitchers narrow, elongate (avg 40-50cm), ~ 20x as long as mouth's width, per Weakley's Flora.
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Scapes are about the same height as the pitchers, per Weakley's Flora.
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Habitat: Wet savannas
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Note the bright white "windows" on pitchers & pale lemon petals of blossoms. — Will Stuart
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Pitchers and scapes less than 35cm tall, per Weakley's Flora.
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Small white patches surrounded by reddish tissue decorate the hood, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Hood arching horizontally over the orifice, per Weakley's Flora.
Habitat: Mountain bogs, seepage bogs, cataract bogs
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Hood lobes closely incurved, touching each other or nearly so, per Weakley's Flora.
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Hairs lining the inner surface of the hood averaging 0.8-1.0mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
Habitat: Bogs
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Petals red to deep maroon, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Pitchers greater than 3x long as broad, glabrous on the outer surface, per Weakley's Flora.
Habitat: Wet pine savannas, sandhill seepage bogs, hillside seepage bogs
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Leaf tip is an erect hood, the end of the leaf tube a thickened shiny lip, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Leaves are short-tubular and "squat," with a broad wing lengthwise, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Leaves lie horizontal but curve upward; erect hood doesn't cover mouth, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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Petals bright red, per Weakley's Flora.
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Hairs lining the inner surface of the hood 1.5-3-mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
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Habitat: Wet pine savannas and seepage bogs
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Pitchers mostly decumbent, not marked with white on the hood, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
Habitat: Wet pine savannas
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Hood erect or ascending; a network of red venation surrounds white tissue, per Weakley's Flora.
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Areas of white tissue all around summit of pitcher and throughout hood, per Weakley's Flora.
Habitat: Savannas, less commonly on floating peat mats
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Petals maroon-red, obovate distally; style disc yellow-green w reddish margins, per Flora of North America.
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Pitchers mostly decumbent; lateral wing of the pitcher very prominent, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Hood of the pitcher globose; orifice formed by the fusion of the hood margins, per Weakley's Flora.
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The hood almost covers the opening, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).