Pale Pitcher Plant - a carnivorous plant

a near threatened species

Texas native species

Turkey Creek Unit

Big Thicket National Preserve

"the biological crossroads of North America"

a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Hardin County, TX

032109

Such a strange shape. Sarracenia alata, Jasper Co. TX

Pitcher Plant Trail, Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler Co., Texas - Pitcher Plant Family: Sarraceniaceae - Thousands of Pitcher Plants along this boardwalk - spectacular!

Angelina National Forest, May 2015.

Pale pitcher plants, Boykin Springs, Jasper County, August 2017

Mason McNair and Graham Hunt studying the morphology of Texas Sarracenia alata. Angelina National Forest, March 2015.

One of a few new pitchers in a site hit hard by summer. Jasper County TX, July 2016

This site is long and narrow, a strand of small clearings in dense growth. Jasper County TX, July 2016

Pale Pitcher Plants at Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge. In this picture, you can see the mature pitchers, newly forming pitchers, and dead leaves from the previous season.

Pitcherplant, Gus Engeling WMA, Anderson County, July 2025

April 2014. The flava in flower here are some of the first plants I'd grown from seedling size.

Pale pitcher plants, Letney bog, Jasper County, September 2017

Pitcher plants aren't at their best in the summer here. Jasper County TX, July 2016

Jasper Co, TX

After a little more walking I found myself in a pitcher plant bog I didn't even know existed. Jasper Co, TX

Red/black tube, White's Crossing, DeSoto National Forest, (WS).

Kisatchie National Forest, October 2016

A late-blooming bunch of S. alata

JSA9 Sarracenia Alata “Red Top, Jackson Co, Mississippi”

Poster Title - Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria from the Pale Pitcher Plant/Sarracenia alata/

Mentor Name - Dr. Bryan Carstens

Department - Biological Sciences

Jasper Co, TX

Pale Pitcher Plant along Pitcher Plant Trail, Tyler Co., TX, 150314. Sarracenia alata, Asterids: Ericales: Sarraceniaceae. AKA Pale trumpet.

Every flower has its own personality. I love these plants.

I spent some time observing this cool bug, trying to figure out the nature of the relationship between it and the pitcher plant, but it mostly just slowly crawled around.

Yellow Pitcher Plant along Pitcher Plant Trail, Big Thicket National Preserve, TX, 100414. Sarracenia alata. Sarraceniaceae

Dentro de Sarracenia alata var máxima

Don Benito (Badajoz) Spain

Pale pitcher plant, Geraldine Watson Preserve, Warren, Tyler County, April 2003

Black tube, DeSoto.

To be fair, I don't know if this really even counts as a roadside population, because this road was clearly not used by much of anybody in the past eon.

Sarracenia alata to be precise.

Red pitchers, dark upper tube. A.I.P.C. seed bank.

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Drove to Louisiana by way of Mobile, AL to see a couple pitcher plant bogs around that area. As you can see they were in prime flowering!

black tube, De Soto National Forest, Mike King A28

Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) on Pale pitcher plant (Sarracenia alata)

Pubescent form, George Co. MarS., (WS).

Sabine Parish, LA, January 2016.