Sarracenia oreophila
A critically endangered pitcher plant of a few mountain bogs and streambank seepages in northern Alabama, northern Georgia and western North Carolina. Its tall, yellow-green pitchers appear in spring; in late summer it switches to flat, sickle-shaped non-carnivorous leaves (phyllodia), an adaptation to drier conditions in its habitat. It is cold-hardy, needs full sun and a proper winter dormancy.
Where it grows wild
It grows in sunny, wet places in the southern Appalachian uplands: seepage bogs, sandy and gravelly stream and river banks, and wet meadows. Many of these habitats have been drained or overgrown, and most of about 34 surviving populations have fewer than 50 plants.
Upland sites; the two measured sites are at about 490 m (Sand Mountain area, Alabama) and 620 m (northeast Georgia).
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