PLANTS Profile for Sarracenia purpurea ssp. purpurea var. purpurea (purple pitcherplant)

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PLANTS Profile

Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea
purple pitcherplant

Symbol:

SAPUP6

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Sarraceniaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Subshrub
Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48

More Information:

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Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea

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Synonyms:
Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea

	SAPUV2	Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. venosa (Raf.) Wherry
	SAPUV	Sarracenia purpurea L. var. venosa (Raf.) Fernald

Native Status:
Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea


View Distribution	Native Introduced

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:
USA (AL, DE, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, NJ, SC, TN, VA)

Related Taxa:
Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea

View 2 genera in Sarraceniaceae, 26 species in Sarracenia, 2 subspecies in Sarracenia purpurea L.

Classification:
Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Dilleniidae
Order	Nepenthales
Family	Sarraceniaceae – Pitcher-plant family
Genus	Sarracenia L. – pitcherplant
Species	Sarracenia purpurea L. – purple pitcherplant
Subspecies	Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea – purple pitcherplant
Variety	Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea – purple pitcherplant

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea

The related entities italicized and indented below are listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Florida:
Sarracenia purpurea
decumbent pitcher plant		Threatened
Georgia:
Sarracenia purpurea
purple pitcherplant		Endangered
Illinois:
Sarracenia purpurea
pitcher plant		Endangered
Maryland:
Sarracenia purpurea
northern pitcher-plant		Threatened
New York:
Sarracenia purpurea
pitcher-plant		Exploitably Vulnerable

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea

Sarracenia purpurea:

Nat. Ind.

Reg. 1

Reg. 2

Reg. 3

Reg. 4

Reg. 5

Reg. 6

Reg. 7

Reg. 8

Reg. 9

Reg. 0

Reg. A

Reg. C

Reg. H

OBL

Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Sarracenia purpurea L. ssp. purpurea var. purpurea

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 531893.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

Time Generated: 05/22/2013 08:47 PM CDT