In these nutrient-poor soils, the plants’ animal diets provide them with nitrogen that might otherwise be lacking. A pale green butterfly senses nectar and alights on a rare California pitcher ...

Botanists are in a race against time to save some of the world's most spectacular carnivorous plants from extinction. Over the past year a dozen previously unknown species of pitcher plants ...

Giant pitchers are plants characterized by large, distinctive bell-shaped upper and lower pitchers and narrow, upright lids. The purpose of the pitcher is to capture both rainfall and insects. In ...