Carnivorous Plants: Serpent of the Siskiyous (Darlingtonia californica)

Darlingtonia californica is one of many carnivorous plants native to the West Coast. If you think that Darlingtonia grows mostly in the cool coastal regions of Oregon, think again! The vast majority of Darlingtonia grows in the mountains of southern Oregon and northern California.

In late July, we traveled to southern Oregon to document Darlingtonia growing in the Siskiyou National Forest. We filmed some rarely seen habitats that go against the conventional wisdom that Darlingtonia needs constant high humidity and cool temperatures.

The video is under 9 minutes, but its packed with lots of interesting footage about their growing conditions. We also recorded data, such as air temperature, soil temperature, water temperature, relative humidity and water hardness.

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Science & Technology

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• carnivorous plants
• Darlingtonia
• Oregon
• Sarracenia Northwest
• pitcher plants

[BotanyVideo]

Nice video, next you should try to get a film of the flower being pollinated!!

[SarraceniaNorthwest]

@BotanyVideo Thank you. Pollination is very difficult. As of yet, no one knows for sure what insect pollinates the flowers in the wild. The current theory is spiders.

[swat007jp]

@BotanyVideo yep

[thepadna]

Love the info!

[BotanyVideo]

@SarraceniaNorthwest

You are welcome. I think if you google search Andrena nighirta and Darlingtonia, you will find that some research (some done in 2009 at Humboldt State University) indicates that this solitary bee visits and pollinates Darlingtonia californica. Although spiders do facilitate pollination too.

[TheDistortionBassist]

1:54 listen closely for someone laughing in the backround

[Woozelruler]

The most in-depth and informational video yet. Love the "security"

[stevetinyhallman]

This video has me wondering if they will survive in Augusta Georgia.

[roark100]

cool i got mine in the mail today

[lady3xtreme]

Beautiful video capture of the plants! I plan to visit them in the wild sometime (as they are a couple of hours north from home).