Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that ...

3-10 (8 pages) Vegetation can modify the local geochemistry of natural soils, but the effects of plants on artificial sediments, including mine tailings, are not well understood To study the effects ...

One Southeast wetlands plant, the carnivorous Wherry's sweet pitcher plant, traps insects using a rolled leaf and consumes them with digestive fluids once they've fallen to their doom at the bottom of ...

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 ...