Sarracenia leucophylla
The white-topped pitcher plant of the Gulf Coast, from the Florida panhandle west through Alabama and Mississippi, growing in wet, nutrient-poor longleaf pine savannas. Its tall pitchers have white, red-veined upper parts and come in two flushes, in spring and again in late summer to autumn, when the best-coloured pitchers appear. It is easy and surprisingly hardy but likes a little more drainage than most Sarracenia.
Where it grows wild
Moist, low-nutrient longleaf pine savannas, pitcher plant bogs and seepage slopes along the Gulf Coast, kept open by frequent fire. Soils are acidic, sandy and peaty, wet but not usually stagnant.
Low coastal-plain wetlands near sea level. Few records carry an elevation.
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