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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!
This photograph is of a carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia alata, in-situ at the pitcher plant trail, located on the northeast side of the Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas. These pitcher plants grow in wetland savannas which remain wet much of the year. These carnivorous plants have adapted so that insects are trapped and fall into the bottom of the pitcher. Digestive enzymes break the insect down and glands within the plant absorb the nutrients. This photograph was shot with a ring flash.
Camera: Canon 5D mark ii
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro USM
Focal Length: 100mm
ISO: ISO-100
Exposure Time: 1/200 second
F-stop: f/29
Location: Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, 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.
(Calopogon tuberosus) and (Sarracenia alata). Tyler County, Texas. These species, along with a suite of other unique fauna have very specific site requirements, growing in acidic, often saturated, nutrient poor soils in areas with high exposure to sunlight. These conditions are maintained through periodic fires. Sadly, as fire is no longer a regular component on the landscape, many of the areas that support these unique species have disappeared, and are now few and far between in East Texas.
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!
For once this week, the sun was out and inviting me to photograph the Pitcher Plants in my front yard bog garden. These images are of Sarracenia alata or Pale Pitcher Plant. They were in bud just a week ago. This is a Gulf Coast species.
Taken at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx.
Creative Commons photo by ideonexus. Please feel free to reuse for any purpose!
Flowers of S. alata exhibit an outward flaring of the petal tips whereas the other yellow flowered species droop.
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.
You can see scattered pitchers of Sarracenia alata in the tall grass. This is part of a 100+ acre bog complex.
The darkest I've ever seen it, under greenhouse conditions. This is truly what the clone was named for.
Carnivorous Plants (Sarraceniaceae family) / July, Habersham Co., Georgia, USA / Copyright ©2006 William Tanneberger - All Rights Reserved.
Pale Pitcherplant "wide throat" (Sarracenia alata f. wide throat)
Rural Habersham Co., GA (Carnivorous Plant Collection)
Found a small (~20 plant) Sarracenia alata site near here, but all plants were pretty wrecked from drought.
with unusual veining. This plant reminds me a lot of S.rubra, but its location definitely rules that out.
Taken at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx.
Creative Commons photo by ideonexus. Please feel free to reuse for any purpose!