### plant | tracheophyte | herb:

Carnivorous plant
* All carnivorous plants have traps to be able to extract nutrition from their prey.
* Many carnivorous plants grow alongside streams, or in other areas that are consistently moist
  - thrive in boggy and swampy areas
* Most carnivorous plants absorb nutrients.
* Most carnivorous plants belong to genus
  - taxonomic genus
  - eat flying, foraging, or crawling insects
  - gain nutrients
* Most carnivorous plants have chlorophyll
  - origins
  - live in bogs and wetlands
  - make their own digestive enzymes
  - obtain nutrients
* Most carnivorous plants require bright light or almost full sun
  - highly humid conditions
  - use photosynthesis
* Some carnivorous plants have difficulty
  - pads
  - sticky pads
  - prefer undecomposed strands of long-fiber Sphagnum
  - produce materials
  - rely on nutrition
* Some carnivorous plants use bugs and insects as helpers
  - strategies
  - various strategies
* are a fascinating group of plants
  - specialized group of plants that grow in wet, boggy, acidic soils
  - also adept at passive aggression
  - carnivorous because that is the only way they can survive
  - generally herbs , without wood or bark
* are generally herbs, and their traps are produced by primary growth
  - the result of primary growth
  - plants that eat insects and other small animals
  - widespread but rather rare
* can photosynthesize and create their own energy.
* derive nitrogen from their prey.
* do well in bright sun.
* enhance their diet by capturing insects.
* get nitrogen from the insects they eat.
* grow in soil that has little nitrogen.
  - features
  - various methods of attracting and catching their prey
* look and act like other green plants - well, most of the time.
* lure and capture their prey in different ways.
* occur naturally is swampy, marshy areas.
* require a lot of water
  - moist, acidic growing medium, high relative humidity, and bright light
  - appropriate nutrient-poor soil
  - moist, acidic growing medium, relatively high humidity, and bright light
* supplement their mineral intake by trapping and digesting insects.
* use adapted leaves to capture their prey
+ Carnivorous plant, Evolution: Flowering plants
  * Few fossil carnivorous plants have been found, and then usually as seed or pollen. Carnivorous plants are generally herbs, without wood or bark. True carnivoury has probably evolved independently at least six times. Albert V.A. Williams S.E. and Chase M.W. 1992.
+ Leaf, Leaf adaptations: Plant anatomy
+ Pitcher plant
  * A 'pitcher plant' is a carnivorous plant. Carnivorous plants are plants that eat insects and other small animals. Carnivorous plants grow in soil that has little nitrogen. All living things must have nitrogen. Carnivorous plants get nitrogen from the insects they eat.
+ Venus Flytrap: Caryophyllales :: Mimicry
  * Carnivorous plants grow in soil that has little nitrogen. They get nitrogen from the insects they trap.

### plant | tracheophyte | herb | carnivorous plant:

Bladderwort
* are carnivorous plants
  - like mouse traps
  - probably the least familiar of our carnivorous plants
* grow just below the surface of open water.
* lack roots , but terrestrial species have anchoring stems that resemble roots.

Butterwort
* are carnivorous plants
  - typically small, herbaceous plants a few inches in diameter
  - worth growing for the extremely pretty flowers that they produce
* have a flypaper method of traping
  - colorful flowers