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Pitcher Plant Profile
Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia spp.) is a carnivorous perennial plant that looks like a tall tube with a hood over the top. The flowers emerge in spring on a slender stem and last for two to three weeks.
There are about eight species of pitcher plants and they can hybridize easily to create hundreds of complex hybrids, backcrosses, and cultivars.
They come in a variety of colors and patterns ranging from white with spots to streaky yellows to deep veiny maroons.
Pitcher plants are native to the United States from southern Alabama, through Florida and Georgia, to the coastal plains of southern Virginia and the Carolinas. They are hardy to USDA Zones 5 to 9.
They can grow to 3–4 feet tall and have a clumping habit.
They prefer to grow in full sun. They are a true bog plant, so require moist soil that never dries out entirely, but that is also well-draining. The ideal soil mix is a blend of sphagnum peat moss and sand or perlite at a 2-to-1 ratio.
Do not use any fertilizer and avoid chlorinated water as well.
After their winter dormancy when the pitchers die back, you can repot and divide the large rhizomes to create more plants from each growth point.
Pitcher Plant: You Can Grow That!
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