Plant Wiki
Meet the plants that turn the tables on insects.
Carnivorous plants evolved specialized traps in nutrient-poor habitats around the world. Explore how each group catches prey, where it grows in nature, and what makes it remarkable.
This map highlights selected native ranges of plants represented in our collection. It does not show every carnivorous plant: these plants are remarkably diverse and occur across much of the world, far beyond the areas highlighted here. Distributions also vary by species.
Explore the plant groups
Venus Flytraps
The famous snap-trap from a surprisingly tiny native range in the Carolinas.
North American Pitcher Plants
Sarracenia: upright trumpets and open cups from North American wetlands.
Tropical Pitcher Plants
Nepenthes: hanging pitchers on leaf tendrils from the Old World tropics.
Mexican Butterworts
Beautiful rosettes whose deceptively gentle-looking leaves work like living flypaper.
Sundews
Glittering leaves armed with sticky, mobile tentacles across nearly every continent.
Bladderworts
Plants with some of the fastest traps in nature, hidden underwater or beneath wet soil.