The pitchers of Sarracenia jonesii are greater than 25 cm tall. This federally endangered plant blooms in late August or early September. The only known population of this rare plant in South Carolina is at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport. Granite outcrops with mats of vegeration provide habitat for this exceedingly rare species. Drosera rotundifolia - sundew.
Sundews are plants of piedmont granitic outcrops and moist sand.
These habitats are low in nitrogen. The sundews have developed an insect-eating strategy to gain the nutirents that fly by. The drops at the tip of the bristle-like hairs are sticky and contain digestive enzymes. When an insect is trapped the leaf folds around it and digestion begins. The outer skeleton is not digested and is blown away by the winds when the leaf unfolds.