purple pitcher plant

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purple pitcher plant (plural purple pitcher plants)

  1. A carnivorous pitcher plant native to much of Canada and parts of the eastern United States, of species Sarracenia purpurea.
    Synonyms: turtle socks, hunter's cup, frog's britches, side-saddle flower
    • 2016 December 15, Barbara M. Linde, Pitcher Plants Eat Meat!, Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP, →ISBN, page 19:
      The purple pitcher plant flower sits high above the pitcher.
    • 2022 November 29, Sophie Strand, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      This bromeliad is one of the infamous carnivorous plants that has developed to capture and digest insects and creepy crawlers. But there is something unique about the purple pitcher plant.

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