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Hillsboro, West Virginia

Cranberry Glades Botanical Area

West Virginia’s largest bog is home to rare carnivorous plants.
Conway, South Carolina

Venus Flytraps at Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve

A famous—but endangered—plant is on view at an unassuming nature preserve a quick drive from Myrtle Beach.
Gasquet, California

Darlingtonia Trail

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.
The carnivorous plant <em>Nepenthes lowii</em>, found only in Borneo, is able to thrive in a harsh, high-elevation ecosystem because it has adapted to eat animal droppings.
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These Toilet-Shaped Carnivorous Plants Thrive By Eating Poop

Some of Borneo's pitcher plants took insects off the menu in favor of mammal droppings. It's an evolutionary triumph.
Gemma Tarlach January 20, 2023
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This ‘Cryptically Carnivorous’ Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight, Waiting for Flesh

The western false asphodel has an appetite for insects, but it’s not a great time to be a meat-eating plant.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 17, 2021
The Tropical House.
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Matthaei Botanical Gardens

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.
The great sundew is back on the scene.
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The Triumphant Return of England's Insect-Eating, Bog-Loving, Rad-Looking Great Sundew Plant

A conservation group is hoping that as peat bogs spring back, so will carnivorous plants.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 17, 2019
My, what big marginal spikes you have.
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Venus Flytraps Are a 'Horrid Prison,' But Only for Certain Insects

Medium-size bugs beware.
Noor Al-Samarrai March 27, 2019
Gastro Obscura

Lemang Periuk Kera

Carnivorous pitcher plants make excellent pouches for sticky rice.
Pensacola, Florida

Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.
Darlingtonia State Natural Site.
Florence, Oregon

Darlingtonia State Natural Site

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.
Kota Belud, Malaysia

Nepenthes Rajah: The King of the Pitcher Plants

These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.
The Sundew uses hundreds of sticky dewdrops to catch bugs
San Marino, California

Carnivorous Plants at the Huntington Gardens

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.
Nepenthes pitcher plants - beautiful killers
San Francisco, California

San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.