Venus'-fly-trap leaf, showing trigger hairs
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Item information
- Title:
- Venus'-fly-trap leaf, showing trigger hairs
- Description:
- Venus'-fly-trap leaf, showing trigger hairs. North Carolina Rare Species status/Special Concern/United States Special Concern. Southeastern North Carolina endemic, increasingly rare due to poaching and habitat destruction. Original label on slide: Hairs on leaf of Venus Flytrap; From Natural Gardens (page 340): "Perennial with flowering stalk 4-12 in. high, bearing the white flowers in an umbel at the apex; flower 5-parted except stamens which are commonly 10 in number, sometimes more; petals delicately veined : the bristle-fringed leaf-blades, marvelously modified into an efficient insect trap, the petioles merely being expanded into flat leaf-like organs. For a fuller account see descriptive chapter on the savannahs. In sandy bogs, eastern. Early summer."
- Topics:
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Botany
- Subjects:
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Flowers
Venus's flytrap
- Original Format:
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Black and white lantern slide
- Extent:
- 3.25 x 4 in.
- Item identifier:
- 0021059
- Photographer:
- Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 more info on Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978
- Created Date:
- to
- Genre:
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Close-up views
- Location:
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Big Savannah (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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B. W. Wells
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- B.W. Wells lantern slides (UA023.039) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).