Sarracenia rubra subsp. jonesii looks very much like a large version of Sarracenia rubra subsp. rubra. The flowers smell sweet and have a hint of the raspberry smell similar to that of S. rubra subsp. rubra flowers. As is typical for the subspecies the spring leaves are kind of floppy, with a large midrib. It is speculated that this is to maximise the surface area for photosynthesis in spring, carnivory becoming really important only in summer.

Sarracenia rubra subsp. jonesii is endemic to 10 mountain bogs on the border between North (Buncombe, Henderson, Transylvania Co) and South (Greenville, Pickens Co) Carolina. It's a bog plant, but sometimes occurs at sites called "cataract bogs." These are places where the surface water sheets out over huge, sloping granite slabs. The plants kling to edges and any holdfast on these slabs.

It is extremely endangered in the wild and listed as such on the Appendix I of CITES. The biggest problems are changes in hidrology of its habitat and poaching from nature. For example, every single anthocyanin-free plant has been stolen from the wild by collectors.

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