BSA Online Image Collection - Carnivorous Plants

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Byblis spp.	Cephalotus	Cephalotus	Darlingtonia, frontal view	Darlingtonia, side view


Venus' flytrap flower with leaf rosettes barely visible	Dionaea muscipula, flowering	Dionaea muscipula, leaf closeup	Dionaea muscipula, flower	Dionaea muscipula


Dionaea muscipula, leaf w/insect	Young Venus' flytrap leaves	Young Venus' flytrap seedling with first trap leaves	Cleared Venus' flytrap leaf	Dionaea muscipula, leaf x.s. w/Sarracenia


Young Venus' flytrap seedling with first trap leaves	Dionaea muscipula, leaf macroscopic	Vegetative propagation of Venus' flytrap from leaf bases	Venus' flytrap flower with stigma, anthers and ovary	Venus' flytrap seedlings


Young Venus' flytrap leaves	Vegetative propagation of Venus' flytrap from leaf bases	Vegetative propagation of Venus' flytrap from leaf bases	Vegetative propagation of Venus' flytrap from leaf bases	Vegetative propagation of Venus' flytrap from leaf bases


Drosera, leaf w/insect	Drosera leaves with prey-capturing glandular trichomes	Cleared Drosera leaf	Drosera leaves with prey-capturing glandular trichomes	Drosera leaves with prey-capturing glandular trichomes


Drosera leaves with prey-capturing glandular trichomes	Drosera, tentacle, l.s.	Drosera leaves with prey-capturing glandular trichomes	Drosera leaves with prey-capturing glandular trichomes	Drosera, whole plant


Drosophyllum leaves with prey-capturing glandular trichomes	Drosera spp.


Nepenthes, sp., leaf inflorescence	Nepenthes sp., flowers	Mature Nepenthes trap	Young Nepenthes leafb	Nepenthes, sp., leaves


Pinguicula vulgaris, leaves	Pinguicula vulgaris, whole plant	Pinguicula vulgaris, leaf w/insect	Pinguicula vulgaris, flower


Sarracenia alata	Sarracenia alata, trap contents	Sarracenia leucophylla	Sarracenia purpurea, whole plant	Sarracenia purpurea


Pollinators of the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, include two bee species, Bombus affinis and Augochlorella aurata, and one fly species, Flecherimyia fletcheri	Side view of pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea), Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Note the very small stigma on the upwardly curved style; the ovary is visibly seen.	Hand pollination of pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea	Sarracenia purpurea, whole plant	Sarracenia purpurea


Sarracenia purpurea, leaves	Sarracenia purpurea, leaf closeup	Sarracenia rubra, leaf	Sarracenia rubra, flower	Sarracenia rubra


Sarracenia sp.	Sarracenia sp.	Sarracenia young pitcher plant leaf	Sarracenia sp.	Sarracenia rubra


Utricularia bladder formation	Utricularia bladder formation	Utricularia bladder formation	Utricularia bladder formation	Utricularia bladder formation


Utricularia sp., flower	Utricularia flowers, face view	Utricularia flowers, face view