Purple pitcher plant, northern pitcher plant, turtle socks or purple side-saddle flower, Sarracemia purpurea. Carnivorous plant native to the swamps of America and Canada. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 3, Orr, London, 1837.

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