Sarracenia psittacina
A small Gulf Coast pitcher plant whose pitchers lie flat in a rosette, each ending in a rounded, parrot-beak hood with a small entrance and translucent windows that confuse trapped prey. It grows in wet savannas, bogs and the flooded margins of streams and ponds, where it is often submerged and catches aquatic prey such as tadpoles. It is one of the warm-temperate species: full sun, constantly wet pure peat, and a mild rather than freezing winter.
Where it grows wild
Wet longleaf pine savannas, seepage bogs, and the edges of ponds, lakes and streams on the Gulf Coast, often in places that flood regularly so that the rosette spends time underwater. Soils are wet, acidic, nutrient-poor peat and sand.
Low coastal-plain wetlands near sea level. Few records carry an elevation.
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