California pitcher plant
cobra lily
cobra plant
darlingtonia californica latin

The California pitcher plant, Darlingtonia californica, was described by John Torrey in 1853 and named in his honor.

Near Mount Shasta, he discovered the California Pitcher Plant, Darlingtonia californica, one of the noted successes of the expedition.

Other plants along the trails include the carnivorous California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica), the showy pinkish Lewisia cotyledon, and the rare Trinity Alps endemic wildflower Trinity penstemon (Penstemon tracyi).

There are 5,500 different plants, from cobra lilies to lobelias.

Like many other carnivorous plants of temperate regions, cobra lilies require a cold winter dormancy in order to live long-term.

Dog violets, crimson cinquefoils and hooded cobra lilies pushed through tangles of ruby-bright wild strawberries.

This nursery has 2,400 plants, like chamaecyparis trees, hydrangeas, hellebores, gunneras, coleuses and cobra lilies.

Sandakphu is known as the "mountain of poisonous plants" due to the large concentration of Himalayan cobra lilies (Arisaema) which grow there.

At Darlingtonia State Natural Site, we hoped to catch the carnivorous cobra lilies luring flies to their gooey secretion and feasting on them.

They have a vast list of alliums and actually introduced 'Globemaster’, which will rub shoulders with tall tapering eremurus, lilies and possibly some cobra lilies, aka arisaemas.

The problem is that cobra lilies typically grow in bogs or streambanks that are fed by cold mountain water, and grow best when the roots are kept cooler than the rest of the plant.

Growing cobra lilies from seed is extremely slow and cobra seedlings are difficult to maintain, so these plants are best propagated from the long stolons they grow in late winter and spring.

But now he can order its far more exotic cousins - like Japanese cobra lilies, with strange whips extending from their colorful mouths - from creme de la creme catalogues showcasing these "it" plants of the year.

Asiatic species are often called cobra lilies, while western species are often called jack-in-the-pulpit; both names refer to the distinctive appearance of the flower, which consists of an erect central spadix rising from a spathe.

See that cobra plant getting ready to strike the Filly's leg?

In many weeks, cobra plants will protrude from each section of stolon.

When a cobra plant spread such a cape, the prudent person vacated the region quickly.

The manner in which Xavier had zapped the cobra plant unnerved her, now that she thought about it.

Cobra Plant is found in plentiful during monsoons.

Darlingtonia (cobra plant/lily)

When a minute cobra plant is visible at the end of the stolon (usually in mid to late spring), the whole stolon may be cut into sections a few inches long, each with a few roots attached.

Darlingtonia californica, the cobra plant, possesses an adaptation also found in Sarracenia psittacina and, to a lesser extent, in Sarracenia minor: the operculum is balloon-like and almost seals the opening to the tube.

The single species in the Californian genus Darlingtonia is popularly known as the cobra plant, due to its possession of an inflated "lid" with elegant false-exits, and a forked "tongue", which serves to ferry ants and other prey to the entrance of the pitcher.

(A similar, better-developed mechanism is found in the closely related Darlingtonia californica).

Associated plant species include Darlingtonia californica, Helenium bigelovii, and Chamaecyparis lawsoniana.

Similarly, Sarracenia purpurea uses a variety of worms to digest captured arthropods for them, as does Darlingtonia californica.

On the Darlingtonia californica, a new pitcher-plant from northern California by John Torrey (1853)

The Butterfly Valley Botanical Area is a home of the rare carnivorous plant, Darlingtonia californica.

USDA Plants Profile for Darlingtonia californica (California pitcherplant)

Near Mount Shasta, he discovered the California Pitcher Plant, Darlingtonia californica, one of the noted successes of the expedition.

The nitrogen supply from soils and insects during growth of the pitcher plants Nepenthes mirabilis, Cephalotus follicularis and Darlingtonia californica.

For this reason, it is a part of the unique plant community found in the serpentine barrens of the Siskiyou Mountains, along with Darlingtonia californica and Cypripedium californicum.

The genus Heliamphora contains the most species in the Sarraceniaceae family and is joined by the cobra lily (Darlingtonia californica) and the North American pitcher plants (Sarracenia spp.)

Other plants along the trails include the carnivorous California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica), the showy pinkish Lewisia cotyledon, and the rare Trinity Alps endemic wildflower Trinity penstemon (Penstemon tracyi).

By this definition, many sun pitcher plants (Heliamphora) and the cobra lily (Darlingtonia californica) would not be included on a roster of carnivorous plants because they rely on symbiotic bacteria and other organisms to produce the necessary proteolytic enzymes.

It has been suggested that the light shining through these patches attracts flying insects further into the pitcher and away from the pitcher's mouth in a similar manner to Darlingtonia californica and two Nepenthes species, N. aristolochioides and N. klossii.