User talk:Spike the Dingo

Sarracenia purpurea photo: correct?
The picture is correct. Sarracenia purpurea occurs in a wide range of habitats. Most folks are perhaps used to seeing them in NE bogs in deep sphagnum around ponds. In the SE US, they occur in open grass savannas, with no open water at all. On the maritime provinces, they sometimes occur in the rocky seepage slopes shown in the picture. This plant looks like it has a older flower that has dried and tilted up some, but it is perfectly normal. There is also a gradient in flowering stem length, as one goes from the south to the north. Southern Sarracenia purpurea has much more pink petals and short petioles with a thick lip on pitcher, which has caused Nastase to suggest that it represents a separate species, Sarracenia rosea. The plant in the picture is from the northern part of the range and has a very long petiole, and probably had a distinctly purple flower.