pitcher plant
noun
: a plant (especially family Sarraceniaceae, the pitcher-plant family) with pitcher-shaped leaves in which insects are trapped and digested by means of a fluid secreted by the leaves
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This education and research site has several trails that pass through wetlands, forests, marshes, and bogs (including one for pitcher plants).
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Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2024
This will be any carnivorous plant, like Venus fly trap and pitcher plants.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2024
Carnivorous plants have evolved all kinds of traps and tricks to capture their prey, from the snapping jaws of Venus flytraps to the slippery walls of pitcher plants.
—Bykevin McLean, science.org, 13 Feb. 2024
My favorite place to commune with the flytraps (and a couple of other species of pitcher plant) is at the Stanley Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden at Piney Ridge Nature Preserve, where a little stone path winds through the moist habitat.
—John Jeremiah Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
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Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2024
This will be any carnivorous plant, like Venus fly trap and pitcher plants.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2024
Carnivorous plants have evolved all kinds of traps and tricks to capture their prey, from the snapping jaws of Venus flytraps to the slippery walls of pitcher plants.
—Bykevin McLean, science.org, 13 Feb. 2024
My favorite place to commune with the flytraps (and a couple of other species of pitcher plant) is at the Stanley Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden at Piney Ridge Nature Preserve, where a little stone path winds through the moist habitat.
—John Jeremiah Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
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