Darlingtonia californica
Darlingtonia californica, the cobra lily, is a carnivorous pitcher plant of serpentine fens and cold mountain seeps in northern California and Oregon. Its defining need is cool, moving water at the roots even when air temperatures are hot; most failures come from warm, stagnant roots.
Where it grows wild
Bogs, fens and seeps fed by cold spring water, often on serpentine soils, with moss and sedges; also coastal sphagnum bogs in Oregon.
Recorded from near sea level on the Oregon coast to about 2500 m in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath mountains, median around 1040 m.
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