Carnivorous Plants

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Scientific Name: Dionaea muscipula

Common Name: Venus Fly Trap

How to grow:

1.    Temperate (needs a winter sleep)

2.    Keep in .5 inch of fresh water always.

3.    Give full sun

4.    Cut off flower

5.    Don’t overfeed

Range: Border of SC and NC

Kind of trap (how it works) – Snap trap. The trap closes when two trigger hairs are hit or one trigger hair is hit twice within 20 seconds.

Scientific Name: Sarracenia purpurea

Common Name : Purple Pitcher Plant

How to Grow:   

1.    Full sun

2.    Inch of water

3.    Sleep in the winter

Range : All over USA

Kind of Trap : Pitfall trap




Scientific Name: Nepenthes (many kinds)
Common Name : Tropical Pitcher Plant
How to grow:
- Keep humid
- Part sun
- Constant temperature
Range: Borneo
Kind of Trap : Pitfall





Scientific name : Drosera capensis

Common name : Cape Sundew

How to Grow:
- easy
-keep in one inch of water
- full sun or grow light during the day

Type of Trap: Flypaper trap

Range: South Africa



Scientific Name : Pinguicula

Common Name : Butterwort

How to grow: 
1. Same as sundew

Type of trap: Flypaper Trap

Range: Everywhere but Australia