English: Pitcher plant family.
Botany: plants with pitchers, elongated tube shaped leaves filled with water, with downward pointing hairs and waxy secretions to catch insects with nectar and digest them with enzymes or bacteria; nutrient-poor, acidic soil, bogs; rhizome.
Genera: Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Heliamphora.
DD:
Droseraceae,
Nepenthaceae, Lentibuliariceae, Bromine.
TaxonomySarraceniaceae was previously included in Nepenthales. In the
Apg3 classification it is included in
Ericales.
In the
Plant theory it is included in the Order
Sarraceniales, n Order in
Ericidae.