As the weather has warmed up and the days have gotten longer, lots of new Sarracenia pitchers have opened! This spring was especially exciting because I got to see some almost adult pitchers on a S. x moorei I produced a few years back. I also got my first flower from some S. flava var rugelii plants that I am growing from seed.
You can see the influence of leucophylla in this leucophylla x flava. It's fascinating how I just made a whole new plant that is somewhere in between leucophylla and flava by just putting some pollen of one species onto the stigma of another. It's almost like magic (except that we know about genetics now :)).
Variation in S. x moorei seedlings. The developing pitcher on the left looks more like a developing flava pitcher, and while the developing pitcher on the right looks more like a new leucophylla pitcher.
Spring is the time that Sarracenia flava puts out its best pitchers for the growing season.
Here's an opening pitcher of a flava var. rugelii that I grew from seed:
Another seed-grown rugelii:
A S. flava I got from California Carnivores:
Sarracenia minor kind of looks like it's grinning all the time...
S. alata "Night" x self. These open green with veins but slowly darken. Late summer pitchers are darkest.
Here's a photo of the S. alata last year (2018) in early September:
S. leucophylla has opened spring pitchers as well. They're like a purposefully modest preview of the plant's abilities before the plant puts on its spectacular show in late summer.
Below is a photo of S. leucophylla in early September 2018. I'm looking forward to this year's late summer crop of pitchers!
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