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