Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sarracenia flava
FAMILY
Sarraceniaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This is the largest and most visually striking species of pitcherplant in North Carolina. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
The pitcher plant has not only unique leaves, but very strange flowers as well. Read more at the Botanical Society of America.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sarracenia flava
FAMILY
Sarraceniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 089-01-001:
Sarracenia flava
FAMILY
Sarraceniaceae
COMMON NAME:
Yellow Pitcherplant, Yellow Trumpet, Trumpets
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_safl4_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_safl4_008_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060423_063
April Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm160415_016
April Turner County GA
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JK Marlow jkm160415_017
April Turner County GA
Narrowed base of the hood usually purple-spotted, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
Pitcherplant species
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JK Marlow jkm160415_021
April Turner County GA
Flowers strongly ill-scented; sepals yellowish-green; style-disk yellow-green, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm160415_061
April Turner County GA
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April Turner County GA
Forcing the umbrella-shaped style-disc down provides a glimpse of the stamens.
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JK Marlow jkm0505s_18
May Williamsburg County SC
Sides of the narrowed base of the hood rolled strongly backwards, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm060521_112
May Macon County NC
Highlands Biological Station
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.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_821
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sarracenia flava
FAMILY
Sarraceniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sarracenia flava
FAMILY
Sarraceniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 089-01-001:
Sarracenia flava
FAMILY
Sarraceniaceae
1320
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Look for it in savannas, seepage bogs, pocosins, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Bisexual
5 persistent sepals
5 petals
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p202
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p313
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p256
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p188
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p021
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p078
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p096
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p062
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p191