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Darlingtonia californica Photo Credit:Bureau of Land Management /photo by John Craig | ||||||||||||||
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| Darlingtonia californica Torr. |
Darlingtonia (Darlingtonia californica), also called the California Pitcher plant or Cobra Lily, is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae. It is native to California and Oregon, growing in bogs and seeps. The name Cobra Lily is from the resemblance of the tubular leaf to a rearing Cobra, complete with "fangs".
The genus Darlingtonia is monotypic