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mountain sweet pitcher plant

Sarracenia jonesii

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.January 14, February 17, March 16, April 25, May 37, June 15, July 12, August 15, September 15, October 15, November 11, December 13.
United States554
North Carolina189
Tennessee176
South Carolina169
Georgia14
Alabama3
Mississippi3

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Checked by the maintainer

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Carnivorous plantDescends from a plant lineage whose members are carnivorous plants.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderHeathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales
FamilyNew World pitcher plants · Sarraceniaceae
GenusNorth American pitcher plants · Sarracenia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise mountain sweet pitcher plant with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.