Intro: Scapose, carnivorous perennial found in pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of NC and SC.
Stems: Stem a single, hairy flowering scape arising from the basal rosette of leaves.
Leaves: Leaves basal, in a rosette about 5 in. wide, oval with curled up margins, fleshy, yellowish-green and oily feeling.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers held singly at top of scape, mostly at a right-angle to scape; pale blue to violet veined with darker violet; about 1 in. wide; bilaterally symmetric and tubular, with 5 spreading, notched corolla lobes, a hairy lump on inside bottom of the throat, and a backward-pointing spur.
Fruits:
Comments: Insects are trapped on the upper surface of leaves, which secrete a musty-smelling mucilage and digestive fluids.
Height: to 8 in.
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description: Scapose, carnivorous perennial found in pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of NC and SC.
stems: Stem a single, hairy flowering scape arising from the basal rosette of leaves.
leaves: Leaves basal, in a rosette about 5 in. wide, oval with curled up margins, fleshy, yellowish-green and oily feeling.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers held singly at top of scape, mostly at a right-angle to scape; pale blue to violet veined with darker violet; about 1 in. wide; bilaterally symmetric and tubular, with 5 spreading, notched corolla lobes, a hairy lump on inside bottom of the throat, and a backward-pointing spur.
fruits:
comments: Insects are trapped on the upper surface of leaves, which secrete a musty-smelling mucilage and digestive fluids.
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native range: NC, SC, GA & FL