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.

Making these “complicated leaves” cost pitcher plants “a lot of metabolic resources,” says Barry Rice, an astrobiologist and botanist at Sierra College in California, who has grown more ...

Former bug-eating plants, which evolved to feed on animal droppings instead, have a more nutritious diet than their carnivorous cousins, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our ...

Carnivorous plants come in a variety of shapes and colors—and it’s often their looks that help them attract their prey. However, these floral tricksters may use a different scene to attract ...

“Plant carnivory is something of a hunt for fertilizer,” Albert says. In a 1992 study, Albert and colleagues discovered that the Asian, Australian and American pitcher plants possess similar features ...