Sarracenia flava
The tall yellow trumpet pitcher of the southeastern US coastal plain, from southern Alabama and Florida to Virginia, with inland populations in the Piedmont and North Carolina mountains. Its pitchers usually reach about 50 cm and can pass a metre, come mostly in spring, and are followed in late summer by flat non-carnivorous phyllodia. It is one of the easiest and hardiest Sarracenia to grow: full sun, permanently wet nutrient-poor peat, pure water and a real cold winter dormancy.
Where it grows wild
Open, sunny, permanently moist to wet acidic sites: wet longleaf pine savannas and flatwoods, seepage bogs and the edges of streams, where fire keeps shrubs and trees from shading it. Soils are sandy peat, very poor in nutrients.
Mostly low coastal-plain wetlands near sea level, with populations inland in the Piedmont and a few in the mountains of North Carolina. Few records carry an elevation.
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