ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A carnivorous flower that eats insects and lives in rugged terrain has been chosen as the new logo for Newfoundland and Labrador. The pitcher plant is the new centrepiece of a ...

"This is a specimen of the Newfoundland provincial flower," she said, pulling out a page with a dried pitcher plant adhered to it, plucked from from a marsh on Island Cove Road in the town of Old ...

The purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) ranges from Virginia to Newfoundland and inland to the Great Lakes region of the northern United States and extensive areas of Canada.

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.

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles. The newly found species of ...

"This is a specimen of the Newfoundland provincial flower," she said, pulling out a page with a dried pitcher plant adhered to it, titled Carbonear, 1945. Image | Herbarium ...

She said about 80 to 90 per cent of the specimens are from Newfoundland and Labrador, and the rest are from other parts of the world. The collection, ... pulling out a page with a dried pitcher plant ...