Carnivorous Plant Encyclopedia

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.

True to its name ('white-margined'), this pitcher plant has a band of white hairs just below the rim. The hairs lure termites, making it known as a termite-specialist carnivore. Pitchers are about 15 cm tall.

A pitcher plant with round, shield-shaped leaves whose tendril joins the underside of the blade, and large pitchers swollen at the base. It grows only on the granite cliffs of Mount Kelam in Borneo and is among the most threatened species in the wild.

A highland pitcher plant endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its upper pitchers are narrow below and flare abruptly above like a wine glass, the feature that separates it from its close relative N. maxima.

A small highland pitcher plant endemic to northern Sumatra. Its name is Indonesian for 'toilet', after the wide-mouthed yellow upper pitchers shaped like a toilet bowl. It was described only in 2006.

A lowland pitcher plant of the east coast of Madagascar. It bears mostly slender, funnel-shaped yellow upper pitchers with a broad peristome and an almost circular lid, and was the first Nepenthes species recorded scientifically, in the 17th century.

A lowland pitcher plant from the southern Philippines. Its upper pitchers reach 40 cm long, among the largest in the genus and rivalling N. rajah, with a broad, strongly ribbed peristome and a large lid.

A small butterwort from limestone country in north-eastern Mexico. The blue-violet edges of its fleshy leaves are unmistakable, and in strong light the whole leaf can colour. The purple flowers have evenly rounded petals.

A small butterwort from rock faces in Mexican cloud forest. It keeps the same leaves all year without forming a winter rosette, and its small white flowers are veined in violet; the name refers to the notched petals.

A butterwort found only in the canyon of the Río Moctezuma in Mexico. It raises long, narrow leaves about 10 cm long and bears large deep-pink flowers with a long spur. It is also known as a parent of the cultivar 'Aphrodite'.

A large bladderwort from rocks in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It grows the longest leaves in the genus and bears flowers large enough to be mistaken for orchids. One of the easier tropical species to grow.

A small bladderwort growing on mossy rocks and trees on the Guiana Highlands. It is one of the few red-flowered species in the genus, and sometimes grows in water held in the leaf axils of Brocchinia.

A butterwort of savannas and sandy bogs in the south-eastern United States. In spring it bears bright yellow flowers, unusual in the genus, above a yellow-green rosette up to about 15 cm across.