Sarracenia minor
{{Short description|Species of carnivorous plant}}
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|status = LR/lc
|status_system = IUCN2.3
|genus = Sarracenia
|species = minor
|authority = Walt. (1788)
|range_map = Sarracenia minor range.png
|range_map_caption = Sarracenia minor range
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Sarracenia minor, also known as the hooded pitcherplant,{{PLANTS|id=SAMI9|taxon=Sarracenia minor|accessdate=6 November 2015}} is a perennial, terrestrial, rhizomatous, herbaceous, carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia. Like all the Sarracenia, it is native to North America.
Etymology
In 1788, the first description of S. minor was written by Thomas Walter. The specific epithet minor means "small" and refers to the typical size of the pitchers. The common name refers to the characteristic lid of this species.
Description
The typical form is a relatively small plant with pitchers about {{convert|25|-|30|cm|0}} in height. An especially large form, with pitchers up to {{convert|90|-|120|cm|ft|0}} high, grows in the Okefenokee marshes,D’Amato, Peter. 1998. The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley. {{ISBN|0-89815-915-6}} at the border between Georgia and Florida.
The tubes are mostly green throughout, but can also be reddish in the upper part. Flowering occurs from late March to mid-May. Flowers are yellow in colour and odorless. Over a hundred seeds are produced by a capsule.
Sarracenia minor and S. psittacina are the only species in the genus to employ domed pitchers with translucent white patches that allow light to enter. It has been suggested that the light shining through these patches attracts flying insects further into the pitcher and away from the pitcher's mouth in a similar manner to Darlingtonia californica and two Nepenthes species, N. aristolochioides and N. klossii. The pitcher is filled with water and enzymes produced by the plant and helpful in the digestion of prey. In the wild, Sarracenia minor seems very attractive to ants, although it also attracts and eats a wide range of flying insects.
Distribution
This plant can be found in areas of northern and central Florida and in Georgia up to the southern part of North Carolina. The species exhibits the southernmost range of any member of the genus Sarracenia extending to fragmented populations surrounding Lake Okeechobee in south-central Florida.
Habitat
It grows in swampy environments poor in nutrients such as nitrogen or phosphorus.
Infraspecific taxa
- Sarracenia minor var. minor
- Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis Schnell (2002)
Synonyms
- Sarracenia adunca Sm. (1804)
- ?Sarracenia galeata Bartr. (1791) nom.nud.
- Sarracenia lacunosa Bartr. (1794)
[=S. leucophylla/S. minor] - Sarracenia minor auct. non Walt.: Sweet (1832) [=S. rubra]
- Sarracenia variolaris Michx. (1803)
Gallery
File: Sarraceniaceae - Sarracenia minor-2.jpg|Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis at Okefenokee Swamp Park, Waycross, Georgia
File:Sarraceniaceae - Sarracenia minor.jpg|Plants of Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis in Okefenokee Swamp Park in Waycross, Georgia
File:Sarraceniaceae - Sarracenia minor-1.jpg|Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis
File:Sarraceniaceae - Sarracenia minor-001.JPG|Sarracenia minor pitcher at the botanical garden of Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini, Genova Pegli
File:Sarraceniaceae - Sarracenia minor-002.JPG|Close-up on Sarracenia minor pitcher
References
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- {{citation|last=McBride|first=James|title=Power of the Sarracenia Adunca to entrap Insects|work=Annals of Philosophy|editor-last=Thomson|editor-first=Thomas|editor-link=Thomas Thomson (chemist)|volume=XIII|date=February 1819|number=LXXIV|page=149|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53909#page/251/mode/1up|accessdate=27 April 2015 }}
External links
- [http://www.unep-wcmc-apps.org/isdb/CITES/Taxonomy/tax-species-result.cfm?Genus=Sarracenia&Species=minor&source=plants&displaylanguage=fra&tabname=legal CITES]
- [http://gelinaud.free.fr/carni/pagdyn.php?lan=en&navi=ie&ssmenus=hhhhhhhhhh&anc=&typ=nor&gen=Sarracenia Gelinaud]
- [http://dionee.gr.free.fr/bulletin/txt/d_12_c.htm Dionee]
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Category:Carnivorous plants of North America
Category:Endemic flora of the United States
Category:Flora of Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Flora of North Carolina
Category:Least concern flora of the United States