carnivorous plants
By: Jessica Morgan
What Is a Carnivorous Plant?
• Carnivorous plants are those which attract, capture, kill, and digest invertebrates (and the occasional vertebrate).
• Hundreds of species of plants from several genera are carnivorous.
• Carnivorous plants are found all over the world.• Their habitats range from grasslands to swamps to
under water, from civilization to the jungles of the Amazon.
• Many of them are protected by laws against collecting in the wild.
Some carnivorous plants• Aldrovanda vesiculosa• Amorphophallus
titanum spp.• Brocchinia reducta
Byblis liniflora• Capsella bursa-
pastoris• Cephalotus follicularis• Darlingtonia californica
(Pitcher plant)• Dionaea muscipula
(Venus fly trap)• Drosera paradoxa
(Sundew)
• Drosophyllum lusitanicum
• foetidaPhoradendron spp.
• Genlisea hispidula• Heliamphora tatei• Ibicella lutea • Leedertzae • Metopium
toxiferum• Nepenthes thorellii.
SOMe More Carnivorous Plants
• Roridula gorgonias • Pinguicula longifolia• Sarracenia flava
(Pitcher plant)• Sarcodes sanguinea• Sphagnum S. alata • Stapelia• Triphyophyllum • Utricularia
(Bladderwort)
• N. bicalcarata • Passiflora• Pinguicula vulgaris
(Butterwort)• Platanthera
sparsiflora• Proboscidea spp.• Pterospora
andromedea • Pueraria montana
• As you can see some Carnivorous Plants have a sticky substance that catches flies on their leaves.
• Others drown the insects in a pitcher shape that is part of the plant.
• Still others trap whatever touches special trigger hairs.
How Do The Plants Catch Their Food?
Are The Plants Hard to Grow?
• Carnivorous plants can be easy to grow.
• They can be cultivated in a greenhouse.
• You can grow some varieties in your house as house plants!
Fast facts about some varieties
Venus fly trap (Dionaea)• It is the most
commonly known carnivorous plants.
• The leaf closes when the tiny hairs inside the leaf are touched.
• This picture (right) shows a leaf with an unusual double trap. (It is the only leaf known to have to grown like that)
• Different varieties are found all over the world
• They create a ‘winter resting bud’ that helps them survive cold weather
• They are easy to grow in a greenhouse, but harder to grow in a terrarium because they need good air circulation.
Butterwort (Pinguicula)
A Pitcher plant blossom
•One variety of Pitcher Plants lives primarily on the West Coast in the United States (Darlingtonia)
•The other varieties grow primarily in Florida and South Carolina (Sarracenia)
• Made by: Jessica Morgan
• Helped by: Karen Morgan Katie Morgan
• Sources:– http://www.bestcarnivorousplants.com/– http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp_home.cgi– http://www.paonline.com/mrmiller/– Rice, B.A., 2004, Carnivorous Plant FAQ
v10.0, http://www.sarracenia.com/cp.html– http://www.sarracenia.com/galleria/g153.html