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Sarracenia mitchelliana

Pitcher plant

A table displaying which months are best to sow, plant and harvest.
Flowers
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Flowers	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

Botanical name: Sarracenia mitchelliana
Common name: Pitcher plant
Family: Sarraceniaceae
Plant Type: Conservatory, House plant, Perennial

Flower colour:

Pink

Foliage colour:

Green

Key features:
Dramatic foliage

Sarracenias, commonly known as pitcher plants, are carnivorous plants mainly from North America. They bear flowers that grow singly on tall leafless stalks and most have long tubular ‘pitchers’. Inside these pitchers is a well of digestive fluid to break down prey, which absorbed by the plant. Sarracenias are perennial plants that should be grown in full sun in nutrient-poor compost, and watered from beneath by keeping the plant pot in a tray of rainwater. Rainwater is best as pitcher plants dislike hard, lime-rich water.

Sarracenia x mitchelliana has green pitchers which shade to dark red towards the throat, and deep red flowers. For best results, keep the compost moist at all times. There’s no need to feed plants with conventional plant food; instead place dead or alive insects in the pitchers, which the plants will feed from.