The US Botanic Garden's carnivorous plant collection features sticky traps, digestive juices, and sweet-smelling lures.

One of the most fascinating features of Tarkiln Bayou is that it's the home to a rare, carnivorous plant called the pitcher plant, found only in this Gulf Coast region, as well as three other ...

Former Chicago White Sox All-Star Pitcher and 2005 World Series Champion Bobby Jenks has died at the age of 44 from cancer.

Sarracenia pitcher plants, native to North American bogs, capture insect prey with colorful, modified leaves that look like flowers. Scent may play a role in each species' diet, a new study said.

Insects have plenty to beware when it comes to carnivorous plants. Add an acid-loving fungus to that list of dangers. Sundew plants have tentacle-like leaves that curl around and entrap flies and ...

The plants’ duplicated genomes may have paved the way for specialized carnivory, as well as separate-sexed plants.

A newly described species of pitcher plant, one of the largest and furriest ever found, has been identified on a wild mountain in Borneo, Malaysia. The underside of the leaves of Nepenthes ...

Former Chicago White Sox pitcher Erick Fedde had a hilarious reaction after finding out Pope Leo XIV is a fan of the beleaguered AL Central team.

We know about Venus' flytrap plants, but the better-looking tropical pitcher plants have not gotten the press or the notoriety of the former.

No other species of pitcher plant known to science catches its prey underground. The plant forms specialized underground shoots with small, white, chlorophyll-free leaves, the researchers said.

“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 ...