Product Description

Hooded Pitcher Plant Sarracenia minor Sarracenia minor grows in boggy areas in openings among pine trees in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Sarracenia minor is known as the hooded pitcher plant. Each pitcher leaf end in a re-curved hood, which serves very effectively as a way to trap insects. The bright reddish to purplish colors are an attractive signal. The inside of the hood has nectar glands in it, so the leaf is offering some food for the insect. Notice the pattern of white translucent areas in the leaf..... The translucent areas in the hood fool an insect, which responds to the light these "windows" (seen enlarged here) transmit. The insect's response is to fly toward the windowed wall, because it resembles sky by being bright. The hairs on the inside of the hood of Sarracenia minor may look small, but they are large compared to an insect. They point downward, into the pitcher, and tend to discourage returning upward... The pitchers of Sarracenia minor are long and very narrow, so that the further down in a pitcher an insect progresses, the less likely it is that it can accurately fly up and out of the narrow tube. Here's a view of some remains of insects that were unable to fly back up and out. The pitcher leaf digests the soft parts of insects, but the hard parts remain. The flowers of Sarracenia minor point downwards. The petals are yellow and round in shape. Sarracenia do great in containers, plant in short pots that sit in pure water when they are growing. They should be top-watered regularly to maintain the oxygen levels for the roots and to keep salt levels down in the soil. Adult plants enjoy full sun outdoors. Seedlings make excellent terrarium plants without winter dormancy. You can keep them in a terrarium indefinitely. Mature plants can be planted out in a bog garden, Sarracenia are very hardy plants and can survive below freezing temperatures. Mulch where temperatures drop below zero (zone 6-7).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180654 in Lawn & Patio
• Brand: Hirts: Carnivorous Plants

Features

• Plant is growing in a 3 inch pot
• Full sun
• Use mineral free soil
• Use mineral free water, either distilled or rain water
• Keep constantly wet

Customer Reviews

well packed, arived in good condition
This is a very cute plant! It is about 3" tall, and just the right size for my small terrarium -- I live in dry Colorado, so a terrarium is necessary to keep swamp plants like this alive. It has quite a few pitchers, each green on the bottom, shading to purple on the top quarter. The shape is as the picture.

The plant was well packed in peanuts, and took no damage in shipping despite UPS doing something to the package that looked like it had been hit with a sledge hammer. Hirt's says they mail on Monday and Tuesday; and my plant arrived on Wednesday using regular shipping. This is fast enough that it didn't have time to dry out.

I highly recommend planting in a terrarium, as I mention in my review Akai Ryu Red Dragon Venus Fly Trap Plant - Dionaea.