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🩸 Sarracenia Purpurea – The Gothic Bug-Munching Beauty You Didn’t Know You Needed! (Large)

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Care Level
Intermediate
Mature Size
12.0in
Form
Growth Rate
SlowMedium
Pet Friendly
Non-toxic
Light
Full sun
Water
High
Growing Medium
Peaty
Why We Love Them

Native carnivorous plant that thrives in bog conditions — no tropical drama needed

Fascinating insect-trapping pitchers with gorgeous maroon, red, and green tones

Winter-hardy and ideal for outdoor bog gardens in cooler zones

Low-maintenance once established, and a unique conversation piece

Supports native pollinators and controls garden pests naturally

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5.0 Sarracenia purpurea---Purple Pitcher Plant description

🌱 Beginner-Friendly "Drama-free plant energy"

🩸Sarracenia Purpurea – The Gothic Bug-Munching Beauty You Didn’t Know You Needed!

Say hello to the Sarracenia Purpurea, the vampire queen of the carnivorous plant world! With its deep purple pitchers, sinister curves, and appetite for unsuspecting insects, this plant isn’t just cool—it’s downright badass. If Wednesday Addams started a garden, this would be front and center.

☀️ Thrives in the Spotlight – Loves full sun, and the more light it gets, the darker and more dramatic those purple tones become. It’s basically photosynthesizing in fishnets.

💦 Drinks Like a Swamp Witch – Keep that soil wet and boggy, darling! Sarracenia Purpurea is a wetland native, and dry soil is its mortal enemy. (Rainwater or distilled water only—tap water gives it the ick.)

Bug Buffet, Party of One – Those eerie little pitchers? They’re insect traps, luring in gnats, flies, and other pests with sweet nectar and then digesting them like a goth smoothie.

Perfect for bog gardens, creepy cute terrariums, or anyone who wants a plant with both style and attitude, the Sarracenia Purpurea is a conversation piece, pest control system, and Halloween decoration all in one.

🦇 Adopt this gothic queen before she vanishes into the night! 🖤🌿

🔹 Care Tips (aka, the easy life)

  • Loves the sun, so find it a bright, sunny spot and watch it grow strong!
  • Keep the soil moist—this plant enjoys a boggy, damp environment. Use only distilled, reverse osmosis, or rainwater. Top-down watering 2-4 times a week, water should be leaking from the drainage holes in the bottom.
  • Let it handle the insect situation. It’ll feast on flies and other bugs, saving you the trouble of any pest control. If grown indoors it will need the occasional feeding every 2-3 weeks.
  • Temperature ranges are 50-90 degrees Fahrenheit.

⚠️ 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.

Watering & Feeding

Use only distilled, rain, or reverse-osmosis water

Keep soil consistently wet; best grown sitting in a tray of water

No need to fertilize — feeds on insects it captures naturally

Growing Medium

Nutrient-poor, acidic mix: 1:1 peat moss and perlite or sand (no fertilizer or compost!)

Must remain wet — do not allow to dry out

Hardiness, Dormancy & Compatible Grow Zones

Extremely hardy — tolerates freezing temps when grown in the ground or protected pots

Sensitive to mineralized water and fertilizer

Dormancy:

  • Winter

Growing Zones (unless Indoors):

  • 7a
  • 7b
  • 8b
  • 8a
  • 9b
  • 9a
  • 3b
  • 4b
  • 5b
  • 6b
  • 6a
  • 3a
  • 4a
  • 5a

Native Area:

Eastern and Northern North America — from the southeastern U.S. up into Canada

Propagation

Rhizome division (best in early spring)

Seed (requires cold stratification and patience)

Suitable Space
  • Outdoors
  • Indoors
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