Our First Sarracenia Flower

[blackboxstar]

We have several sarracenias in an outdoor bog garden and today I was surprised to see that sarracenia purpurea is flowering!

This comes only two weeks after our outdoor nepenthes ventricosa flowered.

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[jhtunion]

Huh very interesting! My S. purpurea is also flowering and we live relatively close( plant wise), S. X catesbaei and rubra flowered for me early in spring. I was surprised to see S. purpurea flowering right now but I guess is alright.
What was the source of that sarra purpurea of yours?

Thanks!

[Aidan]

Late flowering sometimes happens and it may occur into autumn or even early winter. Such flowers are often held on very short stems as shown in the linked photo.