Plants of the genus Sarracenia are commonly known as trumpet pitchers or American pitcher plants. These plants get their name from long pitchers that produce nectar near the top rim.

In South Carolina, this underrated East Coast natural preserve is home to many carnivorous plants and diverse wildlife, ...

Whether you love or hate them, spiders are a natural part of your garden. However, if you see a sharp increase in their numbers, these plants could be to blame.

Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap ...

Of the three, the yellow trumpet is the showiest, standing nearly three feet tall. The six-inch-tall parrot pitcher plant is the smallest. The hooded grows as high as a foot.

Grow carnivorous pitcher plants indoors and your guests will never forget them! These ferocious beauties are easily identified by modified leaves that bear an uncomfortable similarity to male ...

Some carnivorous plants change their scent to attract different types of prey, mimicking flowers in their luring techniques, and maybe even regulating their digestion. Trumpet pitcher plants, or ...

Doris Quick of Oakland sent in this photo from her backyard of sarracenia, also known as a pitcher plant or a trumpet pitcher. These fascinating plants lure insects to their deaths by making the ...

They gathered in clusters, forming bright swaths of spring color, and were appropriately called yellow trumpet pitcher plants because their tops were open like the end of a trumpet.

Pitcher plants don’t attract all insects, so they provide little help with controlling mosquito populations in bogs and marshes. What the pitcher plant does offer is wetland beauty and another ...

The yellow trumpet ( Sarracenia flava) is an impressive plant, especially when flowering. The carnivorous plant's chartreuse leaves are shaped like the tubes on trumpets. Insects that land on the ...

The largest carnivorous plant in the area is the yellow trumpet pitcher plant and in it’s modified leaves there is something similar to stomach acid that helps break down the insects that fall ...