Carnivorous plants of North America

The North American continent is home to a wide variety of carnivorous plant species. Species from seven genera are native to the continent, and three of these genera are found nowhere else on the planet.

Sarracenia purpurea, a low-growing pitcher plant species native to North America
Fly trapped by Dionaea muscipula
Limonia fly trapped by Drosera filiformis
Collembola (Dicyrtomina minuta) trapped inside a leaf of Sarracenia purpurea
Pinguicula caerulea
Utricularia juncea

Genera and species edit

References edit

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