Purple Pitcher Plant is a carnivorous plant of sphagnum bogs and fens that traps insects in water-filled, downward-facing hairs inside its pitchers. It is the provincial plant of Newfoundland. The pitchers also support a unique community of organisms including specialized mosquito larvae and protists that live nowhere else. Its solitary dark red flower is pollinated by bumblebees.
Habitat
Sphagnum bogs and fens across boreal and northern North America
Diet
Carnivorous; traps insects in pitchers for nitrogen; flower pollinated by bumblebees
How common
Uncommon
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