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Definition of Sarracenia purpurea
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.
Group relationships: Genus Sarracenia, Sarracenia
Generic synonyms: Pitcher Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarracenia Purpurea
Literary usage of Sarracenia purpurea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... may be taken Heliamphora nutans, a native of moorlands on the mountains of
Roraima, on the borders of British Guiana, and sarracenia purpurea (see fig. ..."
2. The Retrospect of Medicine by James Braithwaite, William Braithwaite (1864)
"ON sarracenia purpurea. [The following is the opinion of Dr. James Watson on the
action of sarracenia purpurea. The cases occurred in the Edinburgh Royal ..."
3. The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little by Félix-Archimède Pouchet (1884)
"... sarracenia purpurea ( mounted by an ample green auricle decorated with scarlet
red veins, to which the species owes its name. These cups, presents from ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by James Braithwaite, William Braithwaite (1863)
"Claiming, as I have a right to do, I will not say the honour, but the priority,
of announcement to the profession of the sarracenia purpurea, as the great ..."
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