Sarracenia purpurea ssp. purpurea pitchers are vastly different from the other two, yet venosa and burkii are broadly similar.
Who has the authority to make these things "official"?
is there one global body that is in charge of such things?
Scot
appantly rosea has a bigger "lip" and is larger in general
Same applies to ssp. venosa when compared to ssp. purpurea.
So why don't we have sarracenia venosa?
No doubt somebody will point out the flowers, but we don't split red and yellow flowered rubra ssp. wherryi into two.
If we were to use rosea then by these standards we could classify, blondes, brunettes, red heads etc... all into their own species...
I believe the current classifications have more to do with location of the plants to one another then the characteristics. Sure one can make the case that the lip, flower colors, hood hairs etc all vary but IMO these are just genetic variabilities and not qualifications to claim a new species.
Sarracenia purpurea ssp. purpurea
Sarracenia purpurea ssp. venosa
Sarracenia purpurea ssp. burkii
Sarracenia purpurea ssp. montana
This would make things much simpler IMO.