A Texas collector has spent decades building a carnivorous plant nursery in Austin. He'll deliver a presentation at the ...

Acid-filled pitchers complete with fangs. Labyrinthine chambers decorated with bristles. Leaves that snap shut in less than a second. Employing strategies like these, carnivorous plants have a ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...

In Florida’s wetlands, the carnivorous pitcher plant is blurring the lines between predator and ally. Home to entire unique ecosystems, there are more to these ancient organisms than many realize. So ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don't have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

If you're looking to grow your garden with a carnivorous plant, The Plant Bar has both stock and advice on how to keep them ...

From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the nutrients they need to survive. Carnivorous plants sound like something ...

Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...

Tucked into bogs, you’ll find one of Minnesota’s most unusual — and carnivorous — plants, which is easiest to spot this time of year when reddish-purple flowers tower above their unusual leaves.