Sarracenia alata bulbous red lid, Stone County, Mississippi

Sarracenia alata bulbous red lid, Stone County, Mississippi is an easy to grow North American Pitcher Plant. Sarracenia alata bulbous red lid, Stone County Mississippi is a named location plant. It is a variety of the ‘pale’ pitcher plant with slender pitchers to a prominent, bulbous and reddish lid and upper pitchers.

These Sarracenia alata bulbous red lid, Stone County, Mississippi look stunning with their various colours and sizes. We consider Sarracenia to be easy to grow, frost hardy (care should be taken with young plants in containers), only requiring a location with direct sunshine and a saucer of rain water. They can be grown both in- and outdoors but benefit from colder winters. Indoors the pitchers will more likely be taller, as they will not be battered by wind and rain. Especially the Sarracenia Purpurea hybrids are well suited to outdoor conditions. They do require specific soil, garden soil is not suitable. An unheated greenhouse or conservatory is ideal for these plants, but they also do great in bog gardens and as pond marginals

Pitcher plants attract insects with their colour, and nectar produced around the mouth of the pitcher. In some the shape of the pitcher means the insect becomes wedged once they have fallen in. Other pitchers fill with water and the insect will drown. Both also have downward facing hairs inside the pitcher, making it even harder for the insect to get out. The plant produces an enzyme to digest the insects.