Another Halloween Flower

Here is another of the weird flowers of one of the carnivorous pitcher plants, this time of the Yellow Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia flava. This, too, though it looks a bit like a daffodil flower is thick and fleshy to the touch, and, though it is not as tall as the pitchers must lure some insects to the pitchers, where they are drowned and digested.

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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