Species · genus Sarracenia · Sarraceniaceae

Purple Trumpet-leaf

Sarracenia leucophylla Raf.

Also known as: Purple Trumpetleaf · White-trumpet · Crimson Pitcherplant · White Pitcher Plant · White-top Pitcherplant

Growth habit

perennial

Native range

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi

Reference · S. leucophylla

Cultivars of S. leucophylla

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under S. leucophylla yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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Sarracenia leucophylla is a carnivorous pitcher plant from the wet, sunny bogs of the southeastern Gulf Coast, so it breaks the usual under-watering rule: its roots must stay constantly damp and never dry out. Stand the pot in a tray of distilled or rainwater (avoid tap or fertilizer) and refill before the standing water is gone, typically every 1 to 3 days. Give it as much direct sun as you can and a cool, dormant winter rest to match its native seasonal cycle.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 1-3d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 3 days

Humidity

High

Temperature

5–30 °C

Soil mix

Lean peat and sand mix, no added fertilizer

Propagation

Rhizome division or seed after cold stratification

Fertilizing

None; captures its own insect nutrients

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Nodding spring flowers ahead of the white-topped pitchers

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 1-3d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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