Sarracenia alata
The pale pitcher plant or yellow trumpets is a North American trumpet pitcher from the Gulf Coast plain of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, with tall, upright, pale green to red-flushed pitchers marked by fine pinstripe veins. It grows in permanently wet, nutrient-poor soils of open longleaf pine savannas and seepage bogs. Growers need full sun, pure water, a nutrient-free peat mix and a cool winter dormancy.
Where it grows wild
It grows in flat, low-lying wetlands on the Gulf Coastal Plain: wet longleaf pine savannas, seepage slopes and bogs with consistently saturated, acidic, nutrient-poor sandy or peaty soils. These open habitats depend on frequent fire to keep shrubs and trees from shading the pitchers, and plants do best where they are sheltered from strong wind.
No elevations are recorded in the usable data; the Gulf Coastal Plain habitats lie at roughly sea level to about 100 m.
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