Carnivorous plants of North Carolina ncwetlands.org
Channel: NC Wetlands
Date: 2019-04-03

North Carolina has several different types of carnivorous (“meat-eating”) plants, plants which use various ways of trapping insects to get extra nutrition. Matt Bushman, botanist for the Nantahala National Forest, describes how sundew and pitcher plants trap insects. Photos of North Carolina’s other carnivorous plants (bladderworts, Venus flytraps, and butterworts) are also presented.

**Remember it is against the law to take or destroy Venus flytraps anywhere in the wild.

Video produced in 2019 by ncwetlands.org, an outreach project of the NC Division of Water Resources.