Sarracenia alata(Alph.Wood) Alph.Wood

Pale Pitcher Plant

WFO wfo-0001135349 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Sarracenia alata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. a Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 204548656
Sarracenia alata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. b Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204543608
Sarracenia alata, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. c Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205626363
Sarracenia alata, photographed by Kim
fig. d Kim, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194322918
Sarracenia alata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. e Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201319569
Sarracenia alata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. f Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201317531
Sarracenia alata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. g Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201328626
Sarracenia alata, photographed by John Kees
fig. h John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197365785

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 375 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 375 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Sarracenia alata f. viridescens S.McPherson & D.E.Schnell
  • Sarracenia alata var. atrorubra S.McPherson & D.E.Schnell
  • Sarracenia alata var. cuprea S.McPherson & D.E.Schnell
  • Sarracenia alata var. nigropurpurea S.McPherson & D.E.Schnell
  • Sarracenia alata var. ornata S.McPherson & D.E.Schnell
  • Sarracenia alata var. rubrioperculata S.McPherson & D.E.Schnell
  • Sarracenia crispata André
  • Sarracenia flava var. crispata (André) Mast.
  • Sarracenia gronovii var. alata Alph.Wood
  • Sarracenia intermedia Bonstedt
  • Sarracenia purpurea var. alata (Alph.Wood) Alph.Wood
  • Sarracenia sledgei Macfarl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.