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

The plant in front is Sarracenia alata 'Maroon Throat,' with 13 flowers on the way

I bought that plant in 2011-- it was about an inch of rhizome with 4 leaves at the time. Crazy how fast they can grow.

One of the prettiest flowers ever. Jasper Co, TX

Weeks Bay Pitcher Plant Bog

Weeks Bay, AL

JSA19 Sarracenia Alata “Across the Road From Gracelands Church, Ocean City, Florida”

This leaf hasn't opened yet. I was amazed by how delicate the colors are.

There were many color variations of plants in the bog.

so says most descriptions of Sarracenia alata. This is one of the few places in Texas where it's truly abundant. Jasper Co, TX

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)

Barbara's buttons and Pitcher plants, Watson Preserve, Tyler County, July 2012

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.

September 2013.

One of the recurring themes of this roadtrip was cops! I have an entirely healthy distrust of authority, and living as an outsider in a small town for 2 years has only reaffirmed this. When a police officer pulled up next to my car and stopped to talk while I was out here taking photographs on public land, a few hundred miles from home in an even smaller town, I got pretty nervous. Luckily he was a chill cop out admiring the plants. Whew!

Low pinebarren milkwort and Pale pitcher plant, Letney Bog, Jasper County, July 2018

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Parc de la Tête d'Or à Lyon

Birmingham Botanical Gardens - Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Mobile County, AL

Angelina National Forest, Jasper County TX, October 2016.

Degussa's service road (in progress) in south Mobile County, AL

The pitcher plants are obvious from the road.

JSA5 Sarracenia Alata “Heavy Veined”

There were many color variations of plants in the bog.

Foxtail Clubmoss Lycopodiella alopecuroides, Dwarf Sundew Drosera brevifolia, Yellow Trumpet Pitcher Plant Sarracenia alata in a bog at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR Gautier, Mississippi.

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Pitcher plants bloom in spring, but the remains of the inflorescence were still to be seen.

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JSA3 Sarracenia Alata “Black Tube, Stone Co.”

Pale pitcher plants, Gus Engeling WMA, Anderson County, July 2021

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