Pitcher Plant
Object ID:
998.1980.3085.1908
Catalog:
Photos
Title:
Pitcher Plant
Subject:
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of two flowers of the pitcher plant bending toward the ground. Ground is cropped by bottom of photo. Background is tall thin grasses. Paper attatched to the back, “ The pitcher plant, common to the bogs and marshes of Maine, is an insectivorous plant. The leaves have become modified receptacles for the capture and ingestion of insects enabling the plant to grow in soils otherwise too poor to support it."
Creator:
Spiker, LaRue
Place:
Date:
1960 c.
Collection:
LaRue Spiker Collection
PastPerfect:
Citation
Spiker, LaRue, “Pitcher Plant,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed November 21, 2024, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/9261.Item 9627