Carnivorous Plant Encyclopedia

A pitcher plant surviving at only about a dozen sites in central Alabama. Its finely hairy yellow-green pitchers are veined red, and its reddish-purple flowers smell of raspberries. It is a CITES Appendix I subspecies.

A carnivorous bromeliad from the tepuis of the Guiana Highlands. Its yellow-green leaves overlap into a water-filled tube, and a waxy coating makes insects slip in and drown. Digestive enzyme activity was confirmed in 2005.

A large perennial Byblis from Western Australia with spectacular mucilage-covered long leaves.

An Australian carnivorous plant with rainbow-glistening mucilage, called Rainbow Plant.

A bromeliad carnivorous plant that traps insects with waxy leaf surfaces, drowning them in leaf-cup water for nutrients.

A selected clone of the Albany pitcher plant. In strong light the rim, then the whole pitcher and even the lid darken to a near-black purple. Selected by a British grower in the late 1980s and registered with the ICPS in 2007.

A unique one-species-genus from Australia with cute small urn-shaped pitchers, coveted by collectors.

A butterwort of wetlands along the US Gulf Coast. Its thin, flat leaves turn deep red to purple in full sun, and its purple flowers have petals notched almost halfway. A true wetland plant that can grow even when submerged.

Called Cobra Lily, a North American carnivorous plant with cobra-head-like pitchers preferring cool conditions.

A natural hybrid of the round-leaved sundew and the great sundew, with spoon-shaped leaves intermediate between its parents. It is sterile and must be propagated by division or leaf cuttings. It occurs in Japan in bogs where both parents grow together.

An Australian sundew preferring partial shade with long lance-shaped leaves.

A South African rosette sundew with beautiful symmetrical form, a top beginner species.

A sundew with uniquely forked leaves, large and impressive, very hardy.

A sundew that captures insects very quickly, curling leaves in seconds. Sometimes annual.

A hardy sundew from South Africa with beautiful glistening sticky leaves, perfect for beginners.

A sundew that lays large kidney-shaped leaves flat on the ground, looking rather like a Venus flytrap. Native to tropical northern Australia, it rests as a bud at soil level in the dry season. Unusually for a carnivorous plant it grows on alkaline, calcareous soil.

A North American sundew with thread-like long leaves, stunningly beautiful when glistening with dew.

An annual Australian sundew with both sticky tentacles and snap-tentacles that catapult prey in milliseconds.

A tall sundew native to Japan as well, but wild populations have drastically declined.

A stem-forming sundew that raises a distinct stem with alternate, spoon-shaped sticky leaves. The lower stem is clothed in dead old leaves and the plant reaches about 25 cm. A robust African species with pink flowers.

Discovered in 2015, one of the world's largest sundews, endemic to one mountain in Brazil.

A small rosette-forming sundew with wedge- to spoon-shaped leaves about 2 cm long lying at ground level. Wiry flower stalks reach about 25 cm. Native to swamps of South Africa and Madagascar.

A 'woolly' sundew of the petiolaris group with broad petioles densely covered in long silvery hairs. Rosettes are usually about 8 cm across. It bears pink to white flowers and grows around the Ord River in northern Australia.