Scientific Note: The Occurrence of Sarracenia oreophila (Kearney) Wherry in the Blue Ridge Province of Southwestern North Carolina

Two populations of the green pitcherplant Sarracenia oreophila (Kearney) Wherry are reported for the Blue Ridge Province of southwestern North Carolina in Clay County. The discovery of these populations resulted from contract work for the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program based on suspicions by Dennis (1980) that plants reported in 1941 from this area and tentatively identified as S. flava were probably the green pitcherplant. This discovery represents a new state record and brings the currently known number of populations of this federally endangered plant to around thirty (Dennis Jordan, pers. comm.).