Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap insects.

Sarracenia, a genus of carnivorous pitcher plants, may have evolved to take advantage of their insects prey's sense of smell. Sarracenia, a genus of carnivorous pitcher plants, ...

Sarracenia flava L. See more items in Botany Flowering plants and ferns George Washington University Collection 2007 Taxonomy Plantae Dicotyledonae Ericales Sarraceniaceae Data Source NMNH - Botany ...

Funding: This work was publicly supported by the French National Research Agency & MUSE University (ANR-16-IDEX-0006 to L.G, C.V. and D.G. under the “Investissements d’avenir” program ...

It's estimated that 97% of Sarracenia's natural habitat has been lost, and Nick is doing his bit to keep this underdog of the carnivorous plant world going.

Sarracenia pitcher plants typically live in bogs in the southeastern United States. Dupont et al., 2023, Plos One, under CC-BY 4.0. Carnivorous pitcher plants seem like something straight out of a ...

The Sarracenia needs at least six hours of direct sunlight a day. A lack of light will cause the plant to become dormant, which seems to be what is happening to your plant.

Each Sarracenia plant has up to 15 pitchers, and can attract as many as 50 hornets. But a typical hornet's nest houses 4,000 insects - so the plants by themselves cannot deal with the problem.