Provides an introduction to carnivorous plants, and features descriptions and illustrations of representative species, each with detailed information on the str

Presents the major types of carnivorous plants, including the Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, butterwort, sundew, and bladderwort, and provides basic guidelines f

Carnivorous plants have fascinated botanists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, physiologists, developmental biologists, anatomists, horticulturalists, and t

Few groups of plants capture the imagination like these carnivores. Among the best known are the Venus fly trap and the various pitcher plants; these and many o