Michael Bishops age 11.  of Charlottesville

Are there carnivorus plants in America?

A diver is a meat‑eater. A carnivorous plant is one which traps and digests small insects: It may also be called an insectivorous plant. Such plants need. more nitrates in their diet than the soil supplies. So they make up then lack by eating meat ‑. if you can  a tiny fly meat.  There are quite a number of these plants. in North America.

The sundew is a small pink rosette of hairy leaves. It traps: flies with goo and digests them with juices. It grower in many boggy places through the United States and Canada. The Venus flytrap has hinged leaves for trapping insects. When a fly lands to investigate the hinge closes and he has to stay for dinner the plants dinner. This plant is common in the Carolinas.

One man‑eating plant is an all American. It grows nowhere else. It is the tall graceful pitcher plant. Its leaves form a pitcher to catch passing insects. There are some eight or nine kinds of pitcher plant. They grow in damp ground from the south eastern United States; to eastern Canada.