Flycatcher Bush

The Flycatcher Bush (Roridula dentata) is an extraordinary woody, semi-carnivorous shrub endemic to the high-elevation fynbos mountains of South Africa’s Western Cape. Unlike typical carnivorous plants that produce water-based mucilage and internal digestive...

Liana Pitcher Plant

The Liana Pitcher Plant (Triphyophyllum peltatum) is without question one of the most enigmatic, botanically unique, and extraordinary plants on Earth. Belonging to the monotypic family Dioncophyllaceae, this colossal West African rainforest vine holds the world...

Common Butterwort

The Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris) is an enchanting, insectivorous perennial plant in the bladderwort family Lentibulariaceae, native to the damp, nutrient-deficient bogs and alpine seepages of the Northern Hemisphere. Taking its common name from the greasy,...

Oblong-leaved Sundew

The Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia), also celebrated as the Spoonleaf Sundew, is a radiant and tenacious carnivorous perennial herb with a remarkable amphi-Atlantic distribution across both Europe and North America. Inhabiting the wettest, sun-drenched...

English Sundew

The English Sundew (Drosera anglica), also widely known as the Great Sundew, is one of the largest, most spectacular, and most voracious carnivorous plants native to the temperate and boreal peatlands of the Northern Hemisphere. Unlike its cousin the Round-leaved...

Round-leaved Sundew

The Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), famously studied and admired by Charles Darwin, is one of the world’s most iconic and widespread carnivorous plants. Inhabiting acidic, nutrient-starved Sphagnum bogs across the Northern Hemisphere, this miniature...

Common Bladderwort

The Common Bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris), also widely celebrated in European botanical and ecological literature as the greater bladderwort, is an extraordinary, free-floating carnivorous aquatic vascular plant belonging to the bladderwort family...

Rainbow Plant

The Rainbow Plant (Byblis liniflora) is an exquisite, delicate carnivorous herb native to the seasonally inundated savannahs, sandstone escarpments, and sandy creek margins of tropical northern Australia and southern New Guinea. Belonging to the monogeneric...

Sun Pitcher

The Sun Pitcher (Heliamphora nutans), also known as the marsh pitcher plant, is an ancient, primitive carnivorous plant endemic exclusively to the misty, flat-topped sandstone table mountains (tepuis) of the Guiana Highlands, most famously Mount Roraima along the...

Waterwheel Plant

The Waterwheel Plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa) is a botanical marvel: a free-floating, rootless, carnivorous aquatic macrophyte celebrated as the aquatic sister species to the famous terrestrial Venus flytrap. Belonging to the sundew family Droseraceae, this...
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