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This was my first time to photograph pale pitcher plant. Wish it wasn't so late in the year. For more information: plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=Saal4
Sarracenia alata The only pitcher plant found in Texas. It's range is limited to far eastern Texas - mainly in the pine savannas of the Big Thicket
Pale pitcher plant and Southern bladderwort, Geraldine Watson Preserve, Warren, Tyler County, July 2019
Tecoma stans
Species of tree
"Yellow trumpet flower" redirects here. For Yellow trumpet, see Costus spectabilis. For Yellow trumpets, see Sarracenia alata.
Tecoma stans is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas. Common names include yellow trumpetbush, yellow bells, yellow elder, ginger Thomas. Tecoma stans is the official flower of the United States Virgin Islands and the floral emblem of The Bahamas.
Quick Facts Tecoma stans, Conservation status ...
Description
Tecoma stans is a semi-evergreen shrub or small tree, growing up to 10 m (30 ft) tall. It features opposite odd-pinnate green leaves, with 3 to 13 serrate, 8- to 10-cm-long leaflets. The leaflets, glabrous on both sides, have a lanceolate blade 2–10 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, with a long acuminate apex and a wedge-shaped base.
The large, showy, golden yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers are in clusters at the ends of branches. The corolla of the flower is bell- to funnel-shaped, five-lobed (weakly two-lipped), often reddish-veined in the throat and is 3.5 to 8.5 cm long. Flowering takes place from spring to fall, but more profusely from spring to summer.
The fruits, narrow capsules, arise from two carpels and are up to 25 cm long. A fruit contains many yellow seeds with membranopus wings; when the fruit opens upon ripening, these seed are spread by the wind (anemochory). The flowers attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Apart from sexually by seed, Tecoma stans can also be reproduced asexually by stem cuttings.
Habitat
Tecoma stans is native to the Americas. It extends from the southern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Antilles to northern Venezuela, and through the Andes mountain range to northern Argentina. It was introduced in southern Africa, India, and Hawaii. It is evergreen in moist and warmer regions, but is deciduous in more temperate regions that have a pronounced dry season.
Yellow trumpetbush is a ruderal species, readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy, and cleared land and occasionally becoming an invasive weed. It thrives in a wide variety of ecosystems, from high altitude temperate forests and tropical deciduous and evergreen forests, to xerophilous scrub and the intertropical littoral. It quickly colonizes disturbed, rocky, sandy, and cleared fields. The species prefers dry and sunny regions of the coast.
Cultivation
Flowers
Tecoma stans is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates. It is cultivated as an ornamental. They are grown in many parts of the world for their beautiful flowering, to adorn streets and gardens. It can be easily propagated by stem cuttings.
Uses
The wood of Tecoma stans is used in rustic architecture like bahareque, for the construction of furniture and canoes, or as firewood or charcoal. It is a medicinal plant used against diabetes and against diseases of the digestive system, among other uses. The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock.
It is a very potent anti-venom against cobra venom, used by Pakistani old medicine. It is proved to be better than antiserum, the paste of this plant's leaves are applied topically on the cobra bite. Its bio-chemicals bind with the cobra venom enzymes thus effectively inhibiting the venom.
Honey production
Main article: Bees and toxic chemicals
Tecoma stans is unique in that although it is nontoxic itself, the honey from its flowers is poisonous nonetheless.
Invasiveness
Tecoma stans has invasive potential and occasionally becomes a weed. The species is considered invasive in Africa (especially South Africa), South America, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. It now presents a significant danger for biodiversity. It competes with local species and can form thick, almost monospecific thickets.
This plant can get solid dark purple to almost black, and is not at its fullest color potential yet. Alatas aren't yet very popular, but interest in them is surging now that breeders realize the potential of these plants!
Deep East Texas.
Pale pitcher plants (Sarracenia alata) dominate a seep on a hillside in a longleaf pine savanna.
Old pitcher (red) and newly emerged and unfurled pitcher of the same plant. Aging and sun promotes the red coloration.
A remarkably varied and beautiful natural hybrid. Many of the plants depicted in these photos are likely multigenerational hybrids and backcrosses.
Carolina Anole (Anolis carolinensis) on a Pale Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia alata)
TEXAS: Jasper Co.
Boykin Springs Recreational Area; Angelina National Forest
Pitcher Plant Bog on gas pipeline easement
15-Apr-2015
31.063495 -94.279479
J.C. Abbott #2728 & K.K. Abbott
This plant is likely a complex hybrid of [Sarracenia alata x leucophylla] x psittacina based on morphology and other hybridization in the local area.
A remarkably varied and beautiful natural hybrid. Many of the plants depicted in these photos are likely multigenerational hybrids and backcrosses.
Tecoma stans
Species of tree
"Yellow trumpet flower" redirects here. For Yellow trumpet, see Costus spectabilis. For Yellow trumpets, see Sarracenia alata.
Tecoma stans is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas. Common names include yellow trumpetbush, yellow bells, yellow elder, ginger Thomas. Tecoma stans is the official flower of the United States Virgin Islands and the floral emblem of The Bahamas.
Quick Facts Tecoma stans, Conservation status ...
Description
Tecoma stans is a semi-evergreen shrub or small tree, growing up to 10 m (30 ft) tall. It features opposite odd-pinnate green leaves, with 3 to 13 serrate, 8- to 10-cm-long leaflets. The leaflets, glabrous on both sides, have a lanceolate blade 2–10 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, with a long acuminate apex and a wedge-shaped base.
The large, showy, golden yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers are in clusters at the ends of branches. The corolla of the flower is bell- to funnel-shaped, five-lobed (weakly two-lipped), often reddish-veined in the throat and is 3.5 to 8.5 cm long. Flowering takes place from spring to fall, but more profusely from spring to summer.
The fruits, narrow capsules, arise from two carpels and are up to 25 cm long. A fruit contains many yellow seeds with membranopus wings; when the fruit opens upon ripening, these seed are spread by the wind (anemochory). The flowers attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Apart from sexually by seed, Tecoma stans can also be reproduced asexually by stem cuttings.
Habitat
Tecoma stans is native to the Americas. It extends from the southern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Antilles to northern Venezuela, and through the Andes mountain range to northern Argentina. It was introduced in southern Africa, India, and Hawaii. It is evergreen in moist and warmer regions, but is deciduous in more temperate regions that have a pronounced dry season.
Yellow trumpetbush is a ruderal species, readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy, and cleared land and occasionally becoming an invasive weed. It thrives in a wide variety of ecosystems, from high altitude temperate forests and tropical deciduous and evergreen forests, to xerophilous scrub and the intertropical littoral. It quickly colonizes disturbed, rocky, sandy, and cleared fields. The species prefers dry and sunny regions of the coast.
Cultivation
Flowers
Tecoma stans is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates. It is cultivated as an ornamental. They are grown in many parts of the world for their beautiful flowering, to adorn streets and gardens. It can be easily propagated by stem cuttings.
Uses
The wood of Tecoma stans is used in rustic architecture like bahareque, for the construction of furniture and canoes, or as firewood or charcoal. It is a medicinal plant used against diabetes and against diseases of the digestive system, among other uses. The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock.
It is a very potent anti-venom against cobra venom, used by Pakistani old medicine. It is proved to be better than antiserum, the paste of this plant's leaves are applied topically on the cobra bite. Its bio-chemicals bind with the cobra venom enzymes thus effectively inhibiting the venom.
Honey production
Main article: Bees and toxic chemicals
Tecoma stans is unique in that although it is nontoxic itself, the honey from its flowers is poisonous nonetheless.
Invasiveness
Tecoma stans has invasive potential and occasionally becomes a weed. The species is considered invasive in Africa (especially South Africa), South America, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. It now presents a significant danger for biodiversity. It competes with local species and can form thick, almost monospecific thickets.
Pale pitcher plants, Gus Engeling WMA, Anderson County, June 2016
I went to several bogs with a couple of Texas Parks and Wildlife botanists looking for the rare Eriocaulon koernickianum. Only found around 10.
Eight inches of rain had fallen the night before so there was quite a bit of flooding and the WMA was closed to the general public.
One of the carnivorous plants found in Texas. The pitcher plant attracts various insects to the "pitcher" with sweet smelling nectar. Once inside, downward pointed hairs prevent the insects from escaping. they eventually fall into the digestive fluids at the bottom and are digested providing much needed nutrients for the plant. This photo was taken in the Big Thicket in south east Texas.
A remarkably varied and beautiful natural hybrid. Many of the plants depicted in these photos are likely multigenerational hybrids and backcrosses.
Pale pitcher plants, Pitcher Plant Trail, Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, April 2016
Second visit to the Pitcher Plant Trail with the NPSOT group.
A remarkably varied and beautiful natural hybrid. Many of the plants depicted in these photos are likely multigenerational hybrids and backcrosses.
Pale pitcher plants, Pink sundews, Zigzag bladderwort and Royal fern, Pitcher Plant Trail, Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, April 2016
Yes, there are three carnivorous plants in this photo. The yellow dot is the bladderwort. Clicking on the photo may help. No way to point it out.