Photo of the Month Archive
June, 2002
Yellow Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia flava L
(Nikon 990 digital camera with built-in flash / 9mb tiff file processed in Adobe Photoshop)
Often called “Trumpets” pitcher plants are unusual plants which possess even more unique flowers. They are carnivorous plants and obtain some of their nutritional requirement from the bodies of insects trapped in their tall, erect, and hooded trumpets. The flowers are often greenish-yellow with a musky odor and very unusual shape. The yellow flower petals hang down from a roundish capsule and last, only for a few days.
These, sometimes spectacular plants are found in bogs and wet areas and are becoming increasingly hard to find. The flowers bloom in april and may and they usually appear before the tall insect capturing trumpets.
http://www.carnivorousplantsuk.co.uk/Infoflava.html