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Definition of Sarracenia purpurea

Sarracenia purpurea
Water pitcher Wa"ter pitch"er 1. A pitcher for water. 2. (Bot.) One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type.
Sarracenia purpurea
Sarracenia Sar`ra*ce"ni*a, n. [NL. So named after a Dr. Sarrazin of Quebec.] (Bot.) A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant. Note: They have hollow pitcher-shaped or tubular leaves, and solitary flowers with an umbrella-shaped style. Sarracenia purpurea, the sidesaddle flower, is common at the North; S. flava, rubra, Drummondii, variolaris, and psittacina are Southern species. All are insectivorous, catching and drowning insects in their curious leaves. See Illust. of Sidesaddle flower, under Sidesaddle.

Meaning of Sarracenia purpurea from wikipedia

- Sarracenia purpurea, the purple pitcher plant, northern pitcher plant, turtle socks, or side-saddle flower, is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae...
- Schnell Sarracenia purpurea S. purpurea subsp. purpurea   (autonym) S. purpurea subsp. purpurea f. heterophylla   (Eaton) Fern. S. purpurea subsp. venosa   (Raf...
- trapped by Sarracenia purpurea. Dicyrtomina minuta (Collembola) trapped by Sarracenia purpurea. Moth, Idia lubricalis in Sarracenia purpurea. Combined...
- purpurea Echinacea purpurea, the eastern purple coneflower or purple coneflower Ulmus 'Purpurea', an elm cultivar Sarracenia purpurea, the purple pitcher...
- somewhat different pitcher structure than S. purpurea. A form which lacks anthocyanins has been described as Sarracenia rosea f. luteola. The species is native...
- plants such as sundews (Drosera) and pitcher plants (for example Sarracenia purpurea) have adapted to the low-nutrient conditions by using invertebrates...
- of Sarracenia purpurea Glossy Black Idia (Idia lubricalis) moth trapped by Sarracenia purpurea Carabid beetle (Lebia grandis) trapped by Sarracenia purpurea...
- hybridises with other members of the genus Sarracenia: the hybrids S. x catesbaei (S. flava × S. purpurea) and S. moorei (S. flava × S. leucophylla) are...
- invertebrates that make up part of the microecosystem within the pitchers of Sarracenia purpurea. Some species of pitcher plants like the Nepenthes and Cephalotus...
- genus Sarracenia readily hybridize, making their classification a complex matter.[citation needed] The purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, is the...