The senescing flower of a Northern Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea, aka Purple Pitcher Plant.
Northern Pitcher Plants grow in bogs, particularly sphagnum bogs and moors throughout much of Canada and eastern USA, where the soils are nutritionally poor. They adapt to their situation by having large, tubular leaves which serve as ‘pitchers’ gathering water. Insects fall into these and drown in the water, eventually being converted into nutrition for the plant by digestive enzimes which the plant secretes into the base of the pitchers.
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This flower was photographed in the wild in Newfoundland, where it is known simply as ‘Pitcher Plant’. It is the provincical flower of Newfoundland and Canada, having been chosen as such by Queen Victoria and engraved on the province’s penny. It was adopted as the province’s official floral emblem in 1954.
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