Sarracenia rosea
The Gulf purple pitcher plant, split from S. purpurea in 1999. It forms rosettes of squat, reclining pitchers and has larger, light rose-pink flowers on shorter scapes than any other Sarracenia. It grows in wet pine savannas, seepage bogs and roadside ditches along the Gulf Coast from Mississippi to Georgia and the Florida Panhandle, and is more shade-tolerant than its relatives.
Where it grows wild
Wet, acidic, nutrient-poor seepage bogs and pine savannas of the Gulf coastal plain; it also colonises roadside drainage ditches. It is more shade-tolerant than other Sarracenia but still grows best in open, sunny bogs kept open by fire.
Coastal plain lowlands, essentially near sea level to under 100 m. The one wild GBIF record near Mobile, Alabama, has no elevation.
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