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Darlingtonia State
Natural Site
Darlingtonia State Natural Site is the only Oregon state park
property dedicated to the protection of a single plant
species. Concurrently, the plants it protects are the only
carnivorous flora in the system.
This 18-acre botanical park provides parking and a boardwalk
trail out into a fen that is home to Darlingtonia
californica. Also called a cobra lily, the rare,
strangely-shaped plant is the only member of the pitcher plant
family (Sarraceniaceae) in Oregon.
What visitors see in this little garden of multi-colored
horrors (for insects), is a plant with yellowish green hooded
leaves that form erect, 10 to 20-inch-high hollow tubes. On
top, the leaves are often purplish to reddish mottled with
transparent areas. A hidden opening into the stalk is bordered
by a large, green, mustache-shaped appendage beneath the
curved hood of the leaf. Nectar inside the plant's hidden
opening attracts the insects. Once inside, an insect becomes
confused by the transparent areas that appear like exits. It's
all "downhill" for the insect from that point as it eventually
drops into the lower part of the tube, is trapped by
downward-pointed hairs and falls into a pool of water at the
bottom of the stalk. Bacteria in the water decompose it into
nitrogen that is then absorbed by the plant.
Darlingtonia californica has flowers with five purple
petals (surrounded by yellow sepals) that bloom in the spring.
Associated species include an orchid, California lady's
slipper, and two lilies, Tofieldia and Narthecium.
Darlingtonia plants are found in serpentine soils and sphagnum
fens arising from wet sands on coastal plains. Collecting
Darlingtonia samples is illegal in Oregon.
Besides its parking area and boardwalk, Darlingtonia State
Natural Site offers a small picnic area. Nearby scenery
includes a lush assortment of vegetation that includes
rhododendron, spruce, cedar and shore pine.
Services and Things to Do
- Picnicking
- Wildlife watching
- Native plant
- Walking trail
- Waterways
- Interpretation
- Interpretive signs
- Year-round
- Restrooms
Get driving directions to this park
There is no fee to use this park.
For information, call 1-800-551-6949.
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