from various locations. I'm not sure I believe in this varietal name, but it's published, so here you have it! Some of these clones will turn solid red in the fall, so they'll turn into atrorubras!

Gulf coast Barbara's buttons and Pale pitcher plants, Geraldine Watson Preserve, Warren, Tyler County, July 2012

M. angustifolia is considered distinct from the Atlantic M. graminifolia. fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/main.php?pg=show-taxon.php&plantnam... (Weakley FSUS).

These are the photos from my first day at the Preserve.

Sarracenia alata, Kisatchie National Forest, April 2016.

Mobile County, AL

Pitcher Plant Trail, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, USA

Pale pitcher plants and Roughleaf coneflower, US Highway 255, Jasper County, June 2019

Sarracenia alata

Spider on top of Sarracenia alata, Mississippi, September 2013

Chapman's fringed orchid and Pale pitcher plants, Geraldine Watson Preserve, Warren, Tyler County, July 2012

Photos from 2nd and 3rd day at the Preserve.

These plants are pretty close to the westernmost end of range for Sarracenia alata. The habitat definitely looks different-- oaks and hardwoods dominate the forest canopy instead of longleaf pine. The understory is generally still typical gulf coastal plain stuff. I was a little fascinated that xeric cactus habitats existed just yards away from the boggy ones.

JSA7 Sarracenia Alata “pubescent form-Deer Park, Alabama-PJP AL09”

Pale pitcher plants, Screw Pin Creek, Newton County, May 2018

Despite just coming into bloom, this Sarracenia alata flower already had its innards devoured by something. I've become increasingly interested in carnivorous plant pests lately.

I found this bug (grasshopper nymph?) while examining Sarracenia alata flowers in Newton County TX. It was buried well beneath the sepals.

The entire trap on this clone can turn solid dark purple to almost black, but it really needs the exact right conditions to do so.

Yellow Trumpet Pitcher Plant Sarracenia alata at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR Gautier, Mississippi.

Pale pitcher plant, Geraldine Watson Preserve, Warren, Tyler County, May 2013

Kisatchie National Forest, August 2015.

A lone plant in bloom. This one must have been confused.

And some ants.

Carnivorous Plants (Sarraceniaceae family) / May, Habersham Co., Georgia, USA / Copyright ©2007 William Tanneberger - All Rights Reserved.

Pale Pitcherplant (Sarracenia alata)

Rural Habersham Co., GA (Carnivorous Plant Collection)

Carnivorous Plants (Sarraceniaceae family) / June, Habersham Co., Georgia, USA / Copyright ©2007 William Tanneberger - All Rights Reserved.

Pale Pitcherplant (Sarracenia alata)

Rural Habersham Co., GA (Carnivorous Plant Collection)

Mobile County, AL

Pale pitcher plants on a privately owned hillside bog, Henderson County, May 2016

Growing intermixed with a colony of Sarracenia alata in south Alabama.

this site has some of the slipperiest mud ever. I knew and remembered this, and still managed to slide around like a doof.

This popular site was dominated by S. leucophylla, but there were isolated patches of S. alata (and a few S. psittacina far off the boardwalk that could only be spotted by trained eyes).

I'm worried about the future of these plants. Angelina National Forest, Jasper Co. TX.

A pitcher coloring up.

Pale pitcher plant, Eryngo, Tenangle pipewort, Quitman, Wood County, September 2014

Complex Eryngium integrifolium

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Sarracenia alata flower

Dissection series

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from various locations. I'm not sure I believe in this varietal name, but it's published, so here you have it! Some of these clones will turn solid red in the fall, so they'll turn into atrorubras!

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Natchitoches Parish, LA