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purple pitcher plant
Sarracenia purpurea
30 photos
Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.
Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.
Easily confused with
Burk's southern pitcher plantSarracenia rosea
Eastern Skunk CabbageSymplocarpus foetidus
yellow pitcher plantSarracenia flava
sweet pitcher plantSarracenia rubra
white pitcher plantSarracenia leucophylla
parrot pitcher plantSarracenia psittacina
mountain sweet pitcher plantSarracenia jonesii
Nepenthes distillatoria
Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.
Where it is recorded
| United States | 26,804 |
|---|---|
| Canada | 6,467 |
| Ontario | 2,540 |
| Michigan | 1,980 |
| Maine | 1,827 |
| New Jersey | 1,731 |
| Alaska | 1,632 |
| New York | 1,602 |
| Wisconsin | 1,520 |
| Minnesota | 1,267 |
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
- Likes poor soilAdded by a member
- Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
- Subshrub growth formListed by a harvested source as having a subshrub growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
- Forb or herb growth formListed by a harvested source as having a forb or herbaceous growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
- Wetland-associatedListed by a harvested source as obligate or frequent in wetland habitat.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
- Perennial plantListed by a harvested source as having a perennial life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
- Carnivorous plantDescends from a plant lineage whose members are carnivorous plants.Inferred from its group
Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.
Classification
| Kingdom | Plants · Plantae |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta |
| Class | Dicots · Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales |
| Family | New World pitcher plants · Sarraceniaceae |
| Genus | North American pitcher plants · Sarracenia |
Study it in a deck
- Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies of Maryland
- Native Plants of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Wetland-associated Species of New Hampshire, United States
Or build your own from the species near you.
Sources
- Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
- Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
- Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
- Traits: USDA PLANTS Characteristics (U.S. Government work / public domain)
- How much to rely on each source
Remember the name next time.
Practise purple pitcher plant with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.