PARROT PITCHERPLANT 



Sarracenia psittacina Michaux 



Parrot pitcherplant is a beautiful member of the bizarre group to 

 which it belongs. The Pitcherplant Family consists of only three 

 genera and about ten species, all American. The true pitcherplants 

 are all natives of the eastern United States, but one of their relatives 

 grows in the mountains of California, and the other still farther 

 away, in the mountains of Guiana. Our pitcherplants inhabit peat 

 bogs, and they may be grown easily in the hot-house in a mixture 

 of peat and sand. The pot should be placed inside a larger one, and 

 the space between should be stuffed with peat moss, thus imitating 

 the natural conditions of soil and moisture. 



The parrot pitcherplant is one of the many interesting plants 

 which are found on our southeastern Coastal Plain. It ranges from 

 Florida to Georgia and Alabama. 



The specimen sketched was grown in the greenhouses of the 

 Department of Agriculture in Washington. 



PLATE 2.36 



