sarracenia purpurea

1. 1.

   perennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland

   Synonymscommon pitcher planthuntsman's cuphuntsman's cups

   Broaderpitcher plant

   Part ofSarracenia

Questions about sarracenia purpurea

What does sarracenia purpurea mean?

sarracenia purpurea means "perennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland".

What is another word for sarracenia purpurea?

Close synonyms include common pitcher plant, huntsman's cup, huntsman's cups. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sarracenia purpurea a common word?

sarracenia purpurea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.