Carnivorous Plants Book

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Scientific Name: Dionaea

Common Name: Venus Fly Trap

How To Grow:

1. Temperate (Needs a winter sleep)


2. Keep in .5 inch of fresh water always
3. Give full sun
4. Cut off flower
5. Don’t over feed

Range: border of SC and NC


Kind of trap (how it works)- Snap trap. The trap closes
when two trigger hairs are hit twice within 20 seconds.

Scientific Name: Sarracenia purpurea


Common Name: Purple Pitcher Plant
How to grow:
1. Full sun
2. Inch of water
3. Sleep in winter
Range: all over U.S.A
Kind of trap: Pitfull trap

Scientific Name: Nepenthes (many kinds)


Common Name: Tropical Pitcher Plant
How to grow
1. Keep humid
2. Part sun
3. Constant temperature
Range: Borneo
Kind of trap: Pitfall

Scientific Name: Drosera Capensis


Common Name: Cape Sundew
How to grow
It’s easy to grow
1. Keep in one inch of water
2. Full sun or grow light in the day

Type of trap: Flypaper trap

Range: South Africa

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