The best time to see this plant is in the morning, just as the sun is coming up, while you quietly paddle in the backwater end of a pond, or perhaps inside a mysterious Carolina bay. By the hundreds, ...

Other insectivorous plants seldom bear their insect traps on reproductive parts, such as the flowering stem. And, unlike the others, the isotope marker shows up not in the same year but mainly in the ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...

Plants are divided into broad categories in terms of their mode of nutrition. The first category consists of green plants which make their own food by the common process called photosynthesis. Such ...

Forest officials and researchers have identified rare carnivorous plants thriving deep within the sanctuary. The discovery ...

Pavlovič and his colleagues found that when they fed butterworts a generous helping of fruit flies, the plants responded by churning out enzymes, many of them the same as those identified in other ...