Pitcherplant bogs are acidic, nutrient poor seeps with slowly moving water which usually comes from a spring head. Bogs, most notably Coastal Plain bogs, are wildflower meadows teeming with color and life, probably one of Georgia's most beautiful habitats. Pitcherplant trumpets raise above a great diversity of wildflowers, orchids, grasses, and sedges. Coastal Plain bogs are a threatened habitat, once covering thousands of acres in Georgia. Now they have been reduced to tiny pockets because of suppression of fire, drainage of habitat, and chemical runoff from agriculture.
Mountain bogs are Georgia's rarest habitat.
Once abundant, only two survive today, and location information is guarded to protect Georgia's last sites. Our bogs and the species within are botanical rarities. All pitcherplant species in Georgia are protected by the state because they are collected from the wild by unscrupulous nurserymen and gardeners. Digging pitcherplants from the wild is inexcusable, because they can be propagated easily from seed. Perhaps it is too bad that pitcherplants aren't more aggressive in their carnivory.