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Green Pitcher Plant
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| Description: A rare, carnivorous
plant with a tubular, hollow spring leaf and distinct hood common to pitcher
plants. It is widest at the top of the tube and tapers to the base. The tube
is green or yellow-green with maroon veins. Insects are attracted into the
tube where they are trapped and digested. The flowers appear in April and
bloom into June. They are yellow and droop from the top of a 2 foot stalk
arising from the base of the plant. In the late summer, the tubes dry up and
are replaced by flat sickle-shaped leaves that are pale or reddish at the
base. Pitcher plants grow in boggy areas, streambanks, or seeps in a
community with grasses, sedges, sphagnum moss and cinnamon fern.
Distribution by County: This pitcher plant is known only from wet sites in Cherokee, Dekalb, Etowah, Jackson, and Marshall Counties in Alabama. |
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Forestry
Considerations: Fire is essential to the continued survival and
vigor of these plants. Fireline construction, where necessary, should be
carried out in a way which avoids alteration of the drainage pattern of the
site or causes a change in the water table. Harvesting, site preparation,
other than burning, or other forestry activities should also be conducted in
a manner which avoids those changes. 
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