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This pitcher plant is most similar to the common yellow pitcher plant (S. flava) of the Coastal Plain. However, unlike its Coastal Plain relative, green pitcher plant occurs only in the mountains in North Carolina. It is one of our many upright species that lack white or translucent patches. It can be distinguished from yellow pitcher plant by the back of the hood. Yellow pitcher plant has hoods that are very strongly pinched, whereas green pitcher plant has hoods that are not pinched in the back, or only slightly so. Green pitcher plant also often exhibits numerous non-pitcher forming leaves at the base of the plants. These non-pitcher forming leaves are called phyllodia (singular = phyllodium). In the yellow pitcher plant of the Coastal Plain, phyllodia are usually absent (or very, very few).
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Sarracenia oreophila: Rare [Fed E, State E | S1 G2]; seepage bogs; mountains. |