General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Suitable Locations: Bog gardening
Uses: Water gardens
Resistances: Flood Resistant
Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: Stratify seeds in wet medium for 4-5 weeks
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Other: Division can be done in early to mid spring, after pitchers are cut back but just before new growth starts coming up.
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Carnivorous
Goes Dormant

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Common names
  • Alabama Canebrake Pitcher Plant
  • Tall Pitcher
  • Pitcher Plant
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Sarracenia rubra subsp. alabamensis
  • Synonym: Sarracenia alabamensis

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Location: at the Missouri Botanic Garden in Saint Louis
Date: 2004-04-24
Sarracenia rubra subsp. alabamensis
Location: at the Missouri Botanic Garden in Saint Louis
Date: 2004-04-24
Sarracenia x catesbaei and rubra
Location: at the Missouri Botanic Garden in Saint Louis
Date: Summer, 2004
Sarracenia rubra subsp. alabamensis
Location: South Alabama 
Date: Late March

Date: 7/16/2016
Sarracenia alabamensis ssp. alabameensis
Location: South Alabama 
Date: Late March 
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