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Sarracenia jonesii Wherry

Jones' pitcherplant, Jones' pitcherplant, Jones's pitcherplant, Mountain Sweet Pitcherplant

Climate known 60 photographs Carnivorous plant
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Summary

Sarracenia jonesii is a species of pitcher plant endemic to seepage bogs in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina and South Carolina. It is currently only found in ten locations: 4 in North Carolina and 6 in South Carolina. S. jonesii is listed as endangered by the US federal government.

Text from Wikipedia, “Sarracenia jonesii”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Sarracenia

Sarracenia is a genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants, commonly called trumpet pitchers. The genus belongs to the family Sarraceniaceae, which also contain the closely allied genera Darlingtonia and Heliamphora.

Text from Wikipedia, “Sarracenia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Sarraceniaceae
Described by
Wherry
Native to
North Carolina, South Carolina
Wild records
241 in range· 30 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Jul, mean day; nights 18 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1457mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jun 134 mm (CHELSA)
Light
15–39DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a carnivorous plant by the genus Sarracenia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (February to April, June to September and December in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 1457 mm a year, wettest June at 134 mm, driest October at 97 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 39 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -11.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Sarracenia jonesii f. viridescens (S.Mc Pherson & D.E.Schnell) B.Rice; Sarracenia rubra f. jonesii (Wherry) C.R.Bell; Sarracenia rubra f. viridescens S.Mc Pherson & D.E.Schnell; Sarracenia rubra subsp. jonesii (Wherry) Wherry.

Cultivation

Grouped as a carnivorous plant by the genus Sarracenia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (February to April, June to September and December in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (1033 mm of 1457 mm) takes 8 months, February to April, June to September and December. Mean temperature moves 20.1 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to March, June and August to October.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1457 mm a year, wettest June at 134 mm, driest October at 97 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1457 mm a year at the habitat, 1033 mm of it February to April, June to September and December. Wettest month June at 134 mm, driest October at 97 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1368 mm to 1510 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 39 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 39 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -11.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -11.3 °C, the absolute minimum -23.8 °C, about 86 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.0 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -1.6 °C in January (across the envelope cells -1.6 °C to -0.2 °C), warmest day 27.9 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -11.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 63% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 8 °C in Jan to 28 °C in Jul; mean night from -2 °C in Jan to 18 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1457 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 4 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -23.8 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.0 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost34.0° 99th-percentile day (undated)-23.8° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125150mm rainDLI 15–39RH 56–63 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 4 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C8 / 8–910 / 10–1214 / 14–1619 / 19–2123 / 23–2526 / 26–2928 / 28–3027 / 27–2924 / 24–2619 / 19–2114 / 14–159 / 9–10
Night °C-2 / -2–-0-0 / -0–13 / 3–57 / 7–912 / 12–1416 / 16–1818 / 18–2018 / 18–2015 / 15–169 / 9–104 / 4–60 / -0–1
Rain mm111 / 110–115128 / 123–132132 / 128–138114 / 105–118110 / 97–112134 / 115–136133 / 129–137134 / 126–140128 / 110–13697 / 95–104106 / 102–107130 / 128–136
DLI17 / 17–1722 / 22–2229 / 28–2936 / 36–3639 / 38–3939 / 39–3938 / 38–3834 / 34–3429 / 29–2924 / 24–2418 / 18–1815 / 15–15
RH %5757 / 56–5756 / 55–5656 / 55–5659 / 57–5961 / 59–6162 / 60–6263 / 61–6361 / 60–6159 / 57–5958 / 57–5858 / 57–58

Each figure is the median across the 4 grid cells holding the 6 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1093:1950 (35.325, -82.475). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -23.8 °C, 1st-percentile night -11.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.0 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 4 distinct grid cells holding the 6 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1093:1950 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 35.50_-82.500, lapse-corrected -70 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 668 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNorth Carolina, South Carolina
Kew's description“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker35.083, -82.599 · in the densest population, 241 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 241 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 30 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 12 km away. 6 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 235 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 241 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Reid Hardin, some rights reserved (CC BY) (7); (c) Sean Feirstein, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Sarracenia jonesii, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Genetic diversity in three endangered pitcher plant species (Sarracenia; Sarraceniaceae) is lower than widespread congeners
M. Steven Furches, Randall L. Small, Anna Furches (2013) · American Journal of Botany
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Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Sarracenia 9 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.