Sarracenia Maroon - your sassy new best baby

🌱 Beginner-Friendly "Drama-free plant energy"

The Sarracenia Maroon is here to add some sass and class to your garden, all while working overtime to catch those pesky beetles, gnats, and flies. It's like having a personal assistant who handles all the bugs and looks fabulous doing it.

🌿 Why You'll Love It:

• Color Pop: Who needs a boring green plant when you can have a stunning maroon wonder that'll have your neighbors doing a double-take?
  
• Self-Cleaning: Unlike your last houseplant, this beauty doesn't require weekly care. Just let it sit back and do its thing—catching bugs and looking fabulous.
  
• Bug-Gobbling Machine: Sarracenia Maroon doesn't just sit there looking pretty; it actually works for a living! It'll gobble up those annoying flying pests so you don't have to.
  
• Low Maintenance: A bit of sunshine, a little water, and boom—you're good to go. It's practically the perfect plant for people who love plants but don't have time for fussy ones.

🌞 Sunshine Level: Full sun (It's the diva of sunlight, loves to soak it all in).
💧 Watering: Keep it moist! But don't drown it—it's a pitcher plant, not a fish. Use only distilled, reverse osmosis, or rainwater. Ready to add a bit of flair and function to your plant collection?
Temperature ranges should be between 50-90 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Elegant deep wine-colored pitchers
• Upright, architectural growth habit
• Natural insect control
• Excellent outdoor bog specimen
• Stunning collector-worthy coloration

⚠️ Important Shipping Callout
📦 This plant ships BARE ROOT. Pot is NOT included.
Bareroot shipping protects the delicate plant during transit, helping ensure your plant arrives healthy and ready to pot.
⚠️ Important:  No Potting Soil.  Peat or Sphagnum moss only with no additives.

Reminder to Order a Heat Pack if Cold
Cold weather shipping reminder ❄️
If temperatures in your area drop below 40°F, we strongly recommend adding a heat pack to protect your Venus Flytrap during shipping.

Water:
• Use ONLY distilled, rain, or reverse osmosis water
• Keep soil consistently moist to wet
• Tray method or bog-style planting recommended
• Never allow the soil to dry out completely

Feeding:
• Catches its own insects outdoors
• No fertilizer required
• Avoid placing food directly into the pitchers

• Carnivorous plant soil mix
• Sphagnum peat moss with perlite or silica sand

🚫 Never use fertilizer soil, compost, manure, or standard potting mixes.

Unlike tropical carnivorous plants, Sarracenia are temperate species that require an annual winter dormancy to thrive. They tolerate frost and seasonal cold remarkably well but should be protected from extended deep freezes when grown in containers.

Dormancy:

• Winter

Growing Zones (unless Indoors):

• 6a
• 6b
• 7a
• 7b
• 8b
• 8a
• 9b
• 9a

Native Area:

Cultivated hybrid derived from North American pitcher plant species

• Rhizome division
• Tissue culture

Mature clumps naturally expand over time, making division an easy way to multiply your collection.

• Outdoors
• Indoors

• Do you offer free shipping?
• Wild Wonders Oasis will run free shipping offers once orders have reached a certain threshold. You can find this information on the Product Pages, Cart Page, and Checkout Page.
  
  Shipping costs are calculated at checkout based on your order, location, selected carrier, and shipping speed. Basically, the plants need a safe little travel plan, and unfortunately the postal goblins do require payment. 📦🌿
  
  We do our best to offer available shipping options at checkout so you can choose what works best for you.
• Do you offer express shipping?
• Yes — express shipping options may be available at checkout.
  
  At checkout, you’ll see a variety of postal carriers and shipping speeds to choose from, depending on your location and the items in your order. Pick the option that works best for you and your leafy little travel companions. 🌿
  
  Please note that shipping speeds begin once the carrier receives the package — not while your plant is still being lovingly packed like the tiny botanical celebrity it is.