Carnivorous plants consist of about 500 species and numerous cultivars of plants that lure, trap, and digest insects, spiders, and other small animals. Enthusiasts often grow the plants for the beautiful shapes and colors of the trapping leaves and in some cases for the flowers alone.

More information about these plants can be found on the website for the International Carnivorous Plant Society including lists of online nurseries that sell the plants, lengthy instructions for growing them, and many photographs.

Live plants can be seen at UNH in the Biological Sciences Library in Kendall Hall and in the tropical conservatory of the UNH Greenhouses next to Putnam Hall.

Hybrid pitcher plant (Sarracenia), thread leaf sundew (Drosera), and group of asian pitcher plants (Nepenthes) in the Biological Sciences Library.

Hybrid asian pitcher plants (Nepenthes) in the tropical conservatory. Both are old crosses made in England during Victorian times.

A new Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea) called 'Red Dragon' and a southern variety of our native pitcher plant (Sarracenia).