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28767
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North Carolina is home to a number of pitcher plant species. The purple pitcher plant, the yellow pitcher plant, the red pitcher plant, the hooded pitcher plant, the mountain sweet pitcher plant, and the green pitcher plant all call North Carolina home. The plants are fragile as their habitat has been largely destroyed. The future of the species, the insects and animals who live and depend on the plants, and stories about the plants are described.
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7249
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Many pitcher plant populations have been seriously depleted through mass collecting and a loss of their natural habitats. Development, agriculture, and tree farming are factors in habitat destruction. Depending on the taxonomy used, there are seven to nine species of the plants in the wild. In North Carolina, pitcher plants grow mostly in the coastal plain. Rob Gardner, curator of native plants at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, is interested in the conservation of native plants, which is one of the main missions of the garden. To help the wild plants survive, Gardner, along with Larry Mellichamp, director of the UNC-Charlotte Botanic Garden, is working to produce hybrids of the pitcher plant.
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9723
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In North Carolina, pitcher plants grow mostly in the coastal plain. Earley describes this elegant plant that has an appetite for insects.
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