Halloween Flower

Even the flowers of these carnivorous plants are weird. This is the flower, nearly gone by, of a Purple Pitcher Plant. They are actually even stranger than they look since they are thick and fleshy to the touch, and, of course, held above the pitchers which are ready to catch unsuspecting insects that visit the flowers.

These were photographed at Summer Lake in Skagit County, Washington, where a number of species of carnivorous plants (at least three species of Pitcher Plants) have been introduced and are flourishing, as their blooms and seeds clearly show. For more information see the links to my blog below.


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