Intro: Carnivorous perennial of wet pine savannas, seepage bogs and pocosins.

Stems: Stems underground, sending up several leaves and a single flower stalk per plant.

Leaves: Leaves erect, yellowish-green pitchers (tubes that trap insects) with a hood partially covering the opening, often streaked with red and with a red band around base of hood. A narrow wing runs along length of pitcher. Long, flat, erect leaves (phyllodia) are produced in late summer.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flower solitary, nodding from top of an erect stalk about equal in height to pitchers, yellow, with 5 drooping petals (2-3 in. long), 5 strongly curved (also yellow) triangular sepals, and an umbrella-shaped structure in the center.

Fruits:

Comments: Endemic to the southeastern U.S. In the centers of peat domes and large peat-filled Carolina bays, S. flava is sometimes very abundant, occasionally the dominant plant over a large area.

Height: 2-3 ft.

plant sale text: Yellow pitcher-plant matures to be one of the tallest of all the southeastern pitcher-plants. This native carnivorous plant attracts bees, wasps, beetles and other insects to its leaf traps by producing nectar. This is one of the first pitcher-plants to bloom in the spring, usually around early April in our area. A brochure on growing native carnivorous plants is available upon request.

bloom table text:

description: Carnivorous perennial of wet pine savannas, seepage bogs and pocosins.

stems: Stems underground, sending up several leaves and a single flower stalk per plant.

leaves: Leaves erect, yellowish-green pitchers (tubes that trap insects) with a hood partially covering the opening, often streaked with red and with a red band around base of hood. A narrow wing runs along length of pitcher. Long, flat, erect leaves (phyllodia) are produced in late summer.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flower solitary, nodding from top of an erect stalk about equal in height to pitchers, yellow, with 5 drooping petals (2-3 in. long), 5 strongly curved (also yellow) triangular sepals, and an umbrella-shaped structure in the center.

fruits:

comments: Endemic to the southeastern U.S. In the centers of peat domes and large peat-filled Carolina bays, S. flava is sometimes very abundant, occasionally the dominant plant over a large area.

cultural notes:

germination code: 2

native range: southeastern United States