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A highly specialized plant with hollow pitcher-like leaves; these fill with water entrapping insects which when "digested" provide essential nutrients to the plant. Flower is solitary, large (~2 inches wide) and purplish red. Sepals, petals and stamens all attach to the base of the ovary, which in turn has an expanded umbrella-like style at its apex.

Photographed June 28, 2000 at the Purdon Conservation Area near Lanark, Ontario.