Pitcher Plant
The Pitcher Plant is found primarily in bogs and marshland throughout the province. It has one large wine-red flower with a red and gold centre and hollow pitcher-shaped leaves which are attached to the base of the stem. As an insectivorous plant, it feeds off the insects which become trapped inside the leaves when they fill with water.
www.heritage.nf.ca/pitcher.html
Sarracenia purpurea (Botanical Latin, purple, referring to the colour of the mottled pitchers) is the floral emblem of Newfoundland and Labrador. Our pitcher plant is the stout little carnivore of Canada’s peat-quilted swamps and jelly-earthed bogs, where it traps insects in leaves modified to hold water, hence pitcher plant.
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Pitcher Plant
The Pitcher Plant is found primarily in bogs and marshland throughout the province. It has one large wine-red flower with a red and gold centre and hollow pitcher-shaped leaves which are attached to the base of the stem. As an insectivorous plant, it feeds off the insects which become trapped inside the leaves when they fill with water.
www.heritage.nf.ca/pitcher.html
Sarracenia purpurea (Botanical Latin, purple, referring to the colour of the mottled pitchers) is the floral emblem of Newfoundland and Labrador. Our pitcher plant is the stout little carnivore of Canada’s peat-quilted swamps and jelly-earthed bogs, where it traps insects in leaves modified to hold water, hence pitcher plant.
www.billcasselman.com/canadian_garden_words/cgw_seven_pit...