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Purple Pitcher Plant – Sarracenia purpurea var. venosa – Carnivorous Plant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarracenia purpurea var. venosa is a hardy variety of the Sarracenia purpurea species, commonly known as the Northern Purple Pitcher Plant or Broadleaf Purple Pitcher Plant. It\u2019s a type of carnivorous plant native to the eastern United States and parts of Canada.<\/p>\n

It’s pitchers are short, squat, and wide-mouthed with reddish-green to deep purple coloration. It is distinctively hairy (more so than S. purpurea var. purpurea), giving it a “velvety” look and this helps differentiate it from the northern variety. It has prominent, net-like veins on the pitchers giving it the name venosa (“veiny”).<\/p>\n

The Purple Pitcher Plant grows a rosette of pitchers close to the ground and tends to grow slowly and compactly and produces large, nodding, deep reddish-purple flowers on tall stalks in the spring.<\/p>\n

The pitchers collect rainwater and attract insects with nectar which Insects then\u00a0\u00a0fall into the water-filled pitcher and are digested by mutualistic bacteria and enzyme. This is a nutrient source for the plant, especially in poor, acidic soils.<\/p>\n

The Purple Pitcher Plants natural habitat are Bogs, fens, wet meadows and\u00a0\u00a0thrives in nutrient-poor, acidic, and moist environments.<\/p>\n

Full sun is ideal (6\u20138 hours\/day)\u00a0\u00a0and water only with distilled, rain, or reverse osmosis water. Keep grow medium consistently wet; do not allow to dry out.<\/p>\n

For growth medium Use a mix of sphagnum peat moss and perlite\/sand (no fertilizer).<\/p>\n

Plant sizes vary batch to batch, see photos for size differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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