Sarracenia alata Red Throat is green with a red interior lid and a red throat. Although this carnivorous plant looks its best in September, it produces delicate looking yellow to cream colored flowers on tall stems in the early Spring.
Glittering and often delicate, Byblis, the Rainbow Plants, can sometime appear as frosted sprays of water, and in sunlight can sparkle with multicolored hues.
Seeds from Nicholson area, Mississippi. They trap their prey by offering them nectar to sip which is secreted around the lip of the plant and also at the base of the lid.
The species can grow nearly ten inches tall. The leaves are oblong, linear to spatulate. The upper surface of the leaves have a covering of sticky tentacles, that attracts preys.