Contains 7 accepted taxa overall.
Characteristics
Classification
Citation
SARRACENIA Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 510. 1753.
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TYPE: Sarracenia purpurea Linnaeus Lectotypified by Britton & A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S., ed. 2. 2: 201. 1913.
Species
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Herbarium Specimens | Status | Photos |
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| Sarracenia flava | Yellow Pitcherplant, Trumpets | |||
| Sarracenia jonesii | Mountain Sweet Pitcherplant | |||
| Sarracenia minor var. minor | Hooded Pitcherplant | |||
| Sarracenia psittacina | ||||
| Sarracenia purpurea var. venosa | Southern Purple Pitcherplant | |||
| Sarracenia rubra ssp. rubra | Sweet Pitcherplant, Redflower Pitcherplant | |||
| Sarracenia rubra ssp. viatorum |
Identification Key
1. Pitchers with white areolae on hoods and/or distal portions of tubes
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1. Pitchers without white areolae on hoods and tubes
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2. Pitchers sprawling, decumbent, or sometimes ascending; orifices opening laterally beneath subglobose hoods; petals maroon-red
2. Pitchers erect; orifices opening terminally, from in front of erect or recurved hoods; petals maroon to red or yellow
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3. Pitchers with areas of white areolae all around distal portion of tube and throughout hood; hoods recurved adaxially, held well beyond orifices; sepals maroon; petals maroon to red
3. Pitchers with prominently circular, white areolae distally opposite orifice; hoods convex, arching-recurved closely over orifices; sepals yellowish green; petals yellow
4. Pitchers urceolate, decumbent or sprawling to ascending; hoods erect or with lobes arched together over orifices, orifices gaping
4. Pitchers tubiform, erect, rarely decumbent; hoods recurved adaxially, covering orifices
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5. Pitchers soft, external surface densely fine-pubescent; orifice rim yellow-green, rarely red, loosely revolute; major veins of distal pitcher tube maroon to red-purple on internal surface, indistinctly colored on external surface; major veins of hoods, if distinctly colored at all, colored mostly on adaxial proximal half of hood
5. Pitchers firm, waxy, glabrous or puberulent; orifice rim green, yellow-green, to red or maroon, loosely to tightly revolute; major veins of external and internal surfaces of distal portion of tube and both surfaces of hood red, maroon, or red-purple
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6. Pitchers 25-100 cm long, glabrous, orifice 2-7 cm wide, hood 3(5-14) cm wide; petals yellow
6. Pitchers 20-57 cm long, usually puberulent, orifice 2.4-3.5 cm wide, hood 2-4 cm wide; petals maroon to red
Genus Synonyms
| Synonym | Full Citation | Basionym | Type |
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| No synonyms found. | |||