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A remarkably varied and beautiful natural hybrid. Many of the plants depicted in these photos are likely multigenerational hybrids and backcrosses.
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!
Took two attempts and thousands of seeds to find this one! This is the result of crossing many different "regylar" clones with each other from the same population: I knew the red genes were in there, just had to tease it out!
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.
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.
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.
This plant was found growing at one of the easternmost localities for this species, where it was greatly outnumbered by white-topped pitcher plants and hybrids.
This plant is almost a phenotypically pure pale pitcher plant but the wavy lid margins and subtle white areolations belie some ancestry from the white-topped pitcher plant.
Angelina County, Texas. This bog is located on a steep hillside in a rolling longleaf pine forest. Groundwater seeps from the slope creating a mat of Sphagnum moss and fueling a proliferation of carnivorous plants such as pale pitcher plants, butterwort, and sundew.
Texas Pineywoods.
Rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides) and pale pitcher plants (Sarracenia alata) grow in a high quality wetland savannah in a longleaf pine upland.
(Sarracenia alata). Tyler County, Texas. Pale Pitcher Plants occur in two disjunct populations, one in eastern Texas and western Louisiana, and one from Southeastern Louisiana to western Alabama.