OK, I usually show you plants outside;  but this one is so cool, I just had to share.  This blossom is about 5 inches long.  
 

It is in the floral department at the Blairsville Ingles store.  It is a pitcher plant, and it's carnivorous.  
 

There are lots of carnivorous plants, and this is one.  The pitchers are the blooms, and at the bottom of each pitcher is some kind of liquid that decomposes insects that fall down inside.  Hey, everybody has to eat, right?  

 

Let's see if I can find out more about it.  Be right back......I'm going to Wikipedia and look up "pitcher plant."  Here's what I found: 

 

'Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of what are considered to be "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar.'  

 

Don't you love that description:  pitfall traps!!!!  Oh, so they are NOT blooms, but modified leaves.  

 

There are also some cool pix there.  And more explanation about "feeding behavior."  Have fun.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!!