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Alabama pitcher plant
Sarracenia alabamensis
6 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
sweet pitcher plantSarracenia rubra
Pale Pitcher PlantSarracenia alataStudy checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.
Where it is recorded
| United States | 88 |
|---|---|
| Alabama | 63 |
| Mississippi | 25 |
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
| 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 |
Sources
- Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
- Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
- How much to rely on each source
Remember the name next time.
Practise Alabama pitcher plant with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.