Southern Purple Pitcher - Carnivorous Plant - Sarracenia purpurea - 5 Seeds

The Venus Fly Trap is the most widely recognized carnivorous plant. The trap quickly snaps shut when its sensitive hairs are stimulated. It's fascinating to watch and educational, too.

Sarracenia is a genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants, commonly called trumpet pitchers. The genus belongs to the family Sarraceniaceae, which also contain the closely allied genera Darlingtonia and Heliamphora. Sarracenia are indigenous to the eastern seaboard, Texas, the Great Lakes area and south-eastern Canada, with most species occurring only in the south-east United States (only S. purpurea occurs in cold-temperate regions). The plant's leaves have evolved into a funnel in order to trap insects, digesting their prey with proteases and other enzymes. The insects are attracted by a nectar-like secretion on the lip of pitchers, as well as a combination of colour and scent. Slippery footing at the pitchers' rim, aided in at least one species by a narcotic drug lacing the nectar, causes insects to fall inside, where they die and are digested by the plant as a nutrient source.

This is a mix of various sarracenia species and hybrids.We are unable to customise an order to a specific species.

Pinguicula grandiflora, commonly known as the large-flowered butterwort, is a temperate insectivorous plant in the Lentibulariaceae family. One distinguishing feature of the species is its flower, which is much larger than the average for the genus. Pinguicula are half hardy perennials that reach a height of 12 to 20cm. They have rosette leaves and bloom from spring to summer with lipped, funnel shaped purple, white or yellow flowers. The size of Pinguicula genus plants makes them ideal for growing in rock gardens. A common name for Pinguicula is Butterwort. Latin names include Pinguicula vulgaris, Pinguicula grandiflora and P. agnata and Pinguicula moranensis.

Please see our note on a growing medium that we suggest and sell for all carnivorous varieties.

Drosera is a genus in the Droseraceae family of carnivorous plants. Members of this family lure, capture and digest insects to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from their native soils. They are known as sundews because their glandular leaf hairs glisten like dew in the sun. Flowers are held far above the leaves on a long stem. They open in response to sun.

Drosera cuneifolia is a perennial carnivorous plant. The basal rosette is loosely clumped and formed by quite broad, wedge-shaped leaves, 20–40 mm long and 10–15 mm wide. The leaves are greenish with 3–5 veins, and the lower leaf surface is almost smooth. Both marginal and discal tentacles are present. The dense marginal tentacles are longer while the rest are shorter, red and knob-ended. The plants have a few, fairly long roots. The flowering stalk is leafless, rarely branched and erect, originating from the centre of the rosette, 100–200 mm long and bears multiple pink to mauve flowers. The petals are 10–15 mm long. The styles are spoon-shaped. Flowering time: November to January. Black spindle-shaped seeds are formed in a capsule and released a few weeks after flowering.

USDA Zone - Autumn

Season to Sow - N/A