Things weren’t looking good for the carnivorous plantDrosera silvicola. Scientists believed there were just two remaining populations of this “meat-eating” flower, both of which have found themselves ...

Master Gardener Ciscoe Morris has me investigating Sarracenia for this week’s garden study. Sarracenia is the name of a group of plants that, to put it bluntly, eat meat. Lots of animals eat plants ...

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...

WASHINGTON — For more than a century, the small garden in the back of Elizabeth Krentzman's Georgetown row house has amused and served its succession of owners. But never quite like this.Krentzman has ...

Most people are familiar with the infamous Venus flytrap because of its role in the science fiction film classic “Little Shop of Horrors,” but there are literally hundreds of other species of ...

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