Description

A.k.a. the California Pitcher Plant or the Cobra Lily. It’s not a lily, not even a little bit, but it does look surprisingly serpentine. 🐍

Music by James Milor from Pixabay

Information provided by:

• The cobra's tongue: Rethinking the function of the “fishtail appendage” on the pitcher plant Darlingtonia californica by David W. Armitage (2016). American Journal of Botany, 103(4), pgs. 780-785. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1500524
• https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/darlingtonia_californica.shtml
• https://www.kqed.org/science/12317/predatory-plant-lure-of-the-cobra-lily
• https://www.carnivorousplantresource.com/the-plants/cobra-lily/
• Pollination Biology of Darlingtonia californica (Sarraceniaceae), the California Pitcher Plant by George A. Meindl and Michael R. Mesler (2011). Madroño, 58(1), pgs. 22-31. [Abstract] https://doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-58.1.22
• https://www.cnps.org/citizen-science/carnivorous-plants-in-meadows-and-fens-6749
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlingtonia_californica