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Height: Recumbent
pitchers |
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Flower: Single,
velvety, 2.5" red-purple or greenish purple flowers;
hang down on single stem |
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Foliage: Evergreen
leaves slender at base, widening at middle; green, variegated
or suffused with reddish purple; wide mouth lid; deep red
with prominent veining of the hood; downward pointing spines
line the throat |
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Comments: Native
to coastal Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, New Jersey;
grow in sun for best color; underground rhizome may live 20
or 30 years; also feeds on spiders, smal frogs, mites, etc.;
hardy to zone 3 |
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Cultivars/Species: Subspecies:
S. purpurea venosa; S. purpurea gibbosa |
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