Native Plant Database

Bransford, W.D. and Dolphia

Sarracenia minor Walt.

Hooded Pitcher-plant, Hooded pitcherplant

Sarraceniaceae (Pitcherplant Family)

USDA Symbol: SAMI9

USDA Native Status: Native to U.S.

Yellow flowers on a leafless stalk amid clustered, hollow, tubular leaves, patterned near the top with reddish veins and pale spots and expanding at the summit into an overarching hood.

This is the most common of the Florida pitcher-plants. Because of the hood-like dome at the tip of the leaf, rain is not collected in this species. Instead, insects and other small organisms are lured up a nectar path on the wing of the leaves and into the hood where there are translucent spots through which the victims try to escape. Unable to do so, they eventually exhaust themselves and drop to the base of the leaf. The plant secretes a liquid that digests the organism and the resulting nutrients are then absorbed by the plant.

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