Illegally introduced purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea), also known as the northern pitcher plant, turtle socks, or side-saddle flower, growing in the wild in Dorset, UK. This carnivorous ...

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When I teach ecology labs at Merrimack College, one of my favorite places to take students is the Pine Hole Bog in Andover’s Charles W. Ward Reservation. While walking along the quarter-mile boardwalk ...

Close up of Sarracenia pitcher plant - Iryna Boiko/Getty Images There is something so intriguing about carnivorous plants, and having them in your home or garden is certainly a talking point (and a ...

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WENHAM — With a manmade bog slowly creating peat at home, a patch of purple carnivorous pitcher plants to devour pests (but not pollinators) and towering milkweed to round it out, local ...

Dr. Phil Sheridan from the Meadowview Biological Research Station visits the studio to talk with Peggy about bog plants and dissect a pitcher plant to see how many insects it can trap. Featured on VHG ...

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Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...

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 ...

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, ...