Jessica Bernardin, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences and a Boise State alum, recently ...

Their list of the top new plants includes carnivorous pitcher plants, exotic orchids and climbers with untapped medicinal powers. Prof Aiah Lebbie discovered an unusual plant clinging to rocks ...

It is also home to a number of other species of carnivorous plants, less famous and more widespread but no less bizarre. You can find pitcher plants with leaves like champagne flutes, into which ...

Long stalks anchor the plant to the ground. A lack of nitrogen in the soil where they grow means that these carnivorous plants use their hollow, jug-shaped pitchers to obtain the nutrient from ...

Found mainly in North Carolina, it’s one of the best-known predatory plants. With tubular leaves filled with digestive fluids, pitcher plants trap insects and even small frogs. Once prey falls ...