Pitcher Plant

From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - LaRue Spiker Collection

Pitcher Plant

8 X 10 black and white photograph of two flowers of the pitcher plant bending toward the ground. Ground is cropped by bottom of photo. Background is tall thin grasses. Paper attatched to the back, “ The pitcher plant, common to the bogs and marshes of Maine, is an insectivorous plant. The leaves have become modified receptacles for the capture and ingestion of insects enabling the plant to grow in soils otherwise too poor to support it."

Details

Pitcher Plant, by LaRue Spiker
8in x 10in
Nature Plants