Lexic.us

Definition of Common pitcher plant

1. Noun. Perennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Pitcher Plant

Literary usage of Common pitcher plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram by Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne (2004)
"... fragrant water lily Pontederia cordata, pickerel-weed Sagittaria lati/olia, arrowhead Sarracenia purpurea, common pitcher plant; Sarracenia flava, ..."

2. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"... would result a leaf in form not unlike that of Sarracenia purpurea, the common Pitcher-plant or Sidesaddle Flower of the Northern United States (Fig. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1896)
"23^-240, his account of the insects which he observed in connection with the common pitcher-plant, Sarracenia vario- ..."

4. Public School Methods (1921)
"In some the leaves are clustered around the foot of the stalk which bears the flower, as in the common pitcher-plant shown in the upper right-hand corner of ..."

5. History of Littleton, New Hampshire by George Clarence Furber, James Robert Jackson (1905)
"... differ greatly from the single member of the Pitcher Plant family — the Purple Sarracenia or common Pitcher Plant, sometimes also called the Side-saddle ..."

6. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"common pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) At the right, one of the pitcher-like leaves is shown in cross section drowned and decaying insects are commonly ..."

7. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"In our common pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) the leaf cups are open and have a broad lip to catch the rain-water and dew. In the case of Nepenthes the ..."

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