Sarracenia flava var. maxima is a carnivorous plant that grows in the marshy areas of the coastal plain of the southeastern United States, North Carolina and from Alabama to Virginia. It is certainly one of the largest of the Sarracenia genus, reaching heights between 80 and 110 cm. The traps have a very solid structure and start out slim and then open into a very wide mouth. The color of the leaves is completely green, almost yellow and without any veining. When repotted, it struggles to color in the first year of growth.
The flower has very large yellow petals. The most beautiful traps are produced in spring while during the summer it mainly produces phyllodia which are flat and non-carnivorous leaves with the sole purpose of increasing photosynthesis especially in winter when the traps full of insects will have fallen.
