Sarracenia purpurea L.

SARRACENIACEAE

- Pitcher-plant family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Sarracenia purpurea L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl. 1: 510. 1753 [1 May 1753]
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Purple pitcherplant

English name: common pitcherplant

English name: huntsman's-cup

German name: braunrote Schlauchpflanze

Grown habit: Subshrub, Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Nepenthales
Family: Sarraceniaceae
Genus: Sarracenia
Species:

Page counter: 1038 ( AVG: 221.62 / 290.473 )

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Sarracenia purpurea
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 202.

Sarracenia purpurea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Meise, Nationale Plantentuin van België, Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Brabant, Belgique/België, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Sarracenia purpurea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Comprensorio di San Giovanni, 'Horti Tergestini', Società Agricola 'Il Fiore dei Fiori, Poesia e Arte nei Giardini s.r.l.', - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Sarracenia purpurea
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Sarracenia purpurea
Credit: Photo by Antonino Messina

Sarracenia purpurea
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Sarracenia purpurea L.
Map for Sarracenia purpurea L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. gibbosa (Raf.) Wherry [353]
2) Sarracenia purpurea L. var. burkii Schnell [155]
3) Sarracenia purpurea L. var. stolonifera Macfarlane & D.W. Steckbeck [228]
4) Sartwellia puberula Rydb. [178]
5) Sasa veitchii (Carriere) Rehder [806]
6) Sassafras sassafras (L.) Karst. [90]
7) Satureja ashei Weath. [158]
8) Satureja calamintha (L.) Scheele var. nepetoides (Jord.) Briq. [97]
9) Satureja georgiana (Harper) H.E. Ahles [137]
10) Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch var. diminuta (Simon) Fernald & Wiegand [154]

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