Plants forming dense clumps; rhizomes 1–2 cm diam. Pitchers persistent, appearing well before flowers and continuing in 1 form throughout the summer, erect, green or suffused with red, with prominent, circular, white areolae distally opposite the orifice, usually with flush of reddish pigment in tissue surrounding white, 12–45(–100) cm, thick, firm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely and unevenly short-pubescent externally, wings 1–3 cm wide; orifice strongly triangular-ovate, 1–3 cm diam., rim red, strongly revolute, without indentation distal to wing; hood strongly convex, arching-recurved adaxially, closely covering orifice, green, flushed bronze-red, or streaked with bronze-red, without white areolae, broadly ovate, not undulate, 1.2–6 cm, ± as long as wide, base continuous with tube, not forming neck, apiculum 1 mm, adaxial surface glabrate or with hairs to 0.5 mm. Phyllodia absent. Scapes 12–55 cm, shorter than longest pitchers; bracts 0.5–1.2 cm, (sometimes alternate within 1 cm of sepals and not appressed to sepals). Flowers odorless or faintly fragrant; sepals yellowish green, 1.5–3.5 × 1.5–3.5 cm; petals yellow, distal portion narrowly obovate, 3–5 × 1–3 cm, margins entire; style disc pale yellow, 2.5–4.5 cm diam. Capsules 0.8–1.8 cm diam. Seeds 1.1–1.3 mm. 2n = 26.