Sarracenia ×moorei

Family:SARRACENIACEAE
Species:Sarracenia ×moorei T. Moore & Mast.
Common Name:Moore's Hybrid Pitcher Plant
Habitat:Pitcher Plant Bog
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Moore’s Hybrid Pitcher Plant is a native herbaceous perennial in the Pitcher-Plant family (Sarraceniaceae). It is a naturally occurring hybrid between the Whitetop Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia leucophylla Rafinesque) and the Yellow Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia flava Linnaeus). It can be expected where ever the parents co-occur. Moore’s Hybrid Pitcher Plant occurs in bogs, along streams, in seeps, in low pine woods, and on roadsides. It is most frequent on sites that have been disturbed. It is a perennial from a short rhizome. The phyllodia (non-trap leaves) are flattened, green in color, non-inflated, and lanceolate in outline. The trap leaves are erect, hollow, tubular in shape with a circular orifice protected by an arched hood. They are orangey-yellow to greenish in color with a dark red throat patch. The leaves have areolations (white “windows”) near the orifice much like the Whitetop Pitcher Plant. The nodding flowers are solitary on a long scape and orangish in color. The 5 persistent sepals are orange-yellow in color. The 5 orange-red to nearly red petals droop between the lobes of the enlarged style disc. The fruit is a capsule. Moore’s Hybrid Pitcher Plant is available from nurseries specializing in carnivorous plants. It requires a wet acidic soil in full sun.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:A natural hybrid between S. flava L. and S. leucophylla Raf. although it was first created and named from a greenhouse cross. Named for David Moore, a Scottish Botanist who hybridized the parents.
Status:Native
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

FamilySARRACENIACEAE - Pitcher-Plant family
Genus Sarracenia
Species Sarracenia ×moorei T. Moore & Mast. - Moore's Hybrid Pitcher Plant

Citation

Citation Sarracenia × moorei T. Moore & Masters, Gard. Chron., n.s. 1: 702. 1874.
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Type: **

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Sarracenia × mooreana Sarracenia × mooreana H.J. Veitch, Cat. New Beautiful Pl. [Veitch] 26. 1877. USA: GEORGIA: Sumter Co.: SE of Americus, 1901, Harper 1021 (neotype: US). Neotypified by C. R. Bell, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 68: 67. 1952.
Sarracenia ×exculta Sarracenia x exculta S. G., Garden (London) 28: 219. 1885.  

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Lee, Monroe

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, TROY, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.
Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used
Image
ALNHS00007498 Monroe 04 MAY 2022 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#5712
ALNHS
Sarracenia xmoorei Masters
TROY000039433 Covington 09 May 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
25078
TROY
Sarracenia ×moorei Masters
TROY000043829 Escambia 02 Jun 2016 Diamond, Alvin R.
27452
TROY
Sarracenia X moorei Mast.
ALNHS00005710 Lee 25 Apr 2018 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#3728
ALNHS
Sarracenia x moorei Masters
UWAL0018656 Baldwin 09 Jun 1996 Kral, Robert
86022
UWAL
Sarracenia moorei Masters [flava × leucophylla]
UWAL0033085 Escambia 02 Jun 2016 Diamond, Alvin R.
27452
UWAL
Sarracenia × moorei Mast.
UWAL0016301 Covington 09 May 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
25078
UWAL
Sarracenia ×moorei Masters
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