GREEN PITCHERPLANT 



Sarracenia ono-phila ( Kearney) Wherry 



So far as known, green pitcherplant was first collected about 1875 

 by Dr. H. M. Neisler in Taylor County, Georgia. He recognized that 

 it differed from the widespread Sarracenia flava in that it develops 

 short, flat leaves in addition to the hollow pitchers, and also in the 

 absence of disagreeable odor from its flowers. Specimens were sent 

 to Asa Gray and to John Torrey for naming, but they minimized the 

 differences and failed to consider its possible distinctness. Botanists 

 who found it subsequently in the mountains of Alabama classed it 

 as a variety or relative of Sarracenia flava. That it deserves full species 

 rank was pointed out by Dr. Edgar T. Wherry in 1933. 



The presence of flat leaves and the greenish color of the petals 

 show it to be a primitive pitcherplant, and it may represent the an- 

 cestor of all the others. 



Clumps collected by Dr. Wherry in 1932. near Center, Cherokee 

 County, Alabama, were brought into bloom the following spring in 

 the greenhouses of Louis Burk at Latham Park near Philadelphia. 

 The sketch here reproduced was made from one of these. 



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