carnivorous plants
Owner: Bruce Lee Bednar
P.O. Box 669
LaBelle, Florida 33975
B. Bednar
Collecting and Cultivating Carnivorous Plants
since 1964

Gardens that have carnivorous plants need insects for plant food. Many people like to grow carnivorous plants and other plants in their garden because they are really beautiful. Some of them are rare. Lees Botanical Gardens sells carnivorous plants and other exotic plants. Venus flytraps and Vase plants and pitcher plants are carnivorous plants. Pitcher plants are also plant types that eat insects. Eating insects is something that carnivorous plants do. Carnivorous plants also cost very little. A pitcher plant is a carnivorous plant and might be purchased as low as $3.00... carnivorous plants, more plants, other plants. Sarracenia is a plant, a carnivorous plant with sometimes red tubes. Plants like this are plants that everyone should have and want to plant. Carnivorous type plants are nice and easy to grow. Plants that do well indoors. These plants sometimes do well out doors too. Buy a carnivorous plant today! Reptiles and Antiques are now available!!
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Gardens that have carnivorous plants need insects for plant food. Many people like to grow carnivorous plants and other plants in their garden because they are really beautiful. Some of them are rare. Lees Botanical Gardens sells carnivorous plants and other exotic plants. Venus flytraps and Vase plants and pitcher plants are carnivorous plants. Pitcher plants are also plant types that eat insects. Eating insects is something that carnivorous plants do. Carnivorous plants also cost very little. A pitcher plant is a carnivorous plant and might be purchased as low as $3.00... carnivorous plants, more plants, other plants. Sarracenia is a plant, a carnivorous plant with sometimes red tubes. Plants like this are plants that everyone should have and want to plant. Carnivorous type plants are nice and easy to grow. Plants that do well indoors. These plants sometimes do well out doors too. Buy a carnivorous plant today!   
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Gardens that have carnivorous plants need insects for plant food. Many people like to grow carnivorous plants and other plants in their garden because they are really beautiful. Some of them are rare. Lees Botanical Gardens sells carnivorous plants and other exotic plants. Venus flytraps and Vase plants and pitcher plants are carnivorous plants. Pitcher plants are also plant types that eat insects. Eating insects is something that carnivorous plants do. Carnivorous plants also cost very little. A pitcher plant is a carnivorous plant and might be purchased as low as $3.00... carnivorous plants, more plants, other plants. Sarracenia is a plant, a carnivorous plant with sometimes red tubes. Plants like this are plants that everyone should have and want to plant. Carnivorous type plants are nice and easy to grow. Plants that do well indoors. These plants sometimes do well out doors too. Buy a carnivorous plant today!
Florida has a number of native carnivorous plants, most of which are also found elsewhere. However, there are several species which are specific to Florida. Most of the plants live in wetlands and particularly in Spagnum bogs - a good way see many of our native carnivorous plants is to take a trip to Everglades Park and find a spagnum bog. Sarracenia, bladder wort, venus flytraps, sundew, orchids, nepenthes can also be found here.
Floridas carnivorous plants fall into two main groups: sundews (Drosera spp) and bladderworts (Utricularia spp).
Drosera:
Six native species of sundew, three of which are alpine, five of the six native species.
Found in three main islands of D. arcturi is an alpine plant with greenish, strap-shaped leaves about 3-6cm long. The plant typically produces one or more flower stalks, producing a flower with five white petals and prominent dark green sepals. Above sea level, it is usually found in peat bogs. During winter, carnivorous plats like arcturi die back to a nesting bud.
This sundew has a rosette of trapping leaves prostrate on the ground. Spread out across the country, binata is normally found in bogs or swamps - and is considered a carnivorous plant. Each leaf divides in two, producing a characteristic "tuning fork" shape. Growing to a reasonable size (up to 50cm), D. binata is the most common and obvious sundew found.
 
As the name suggests, D. pygmaea is tiny carnivorous plant, averaging about 1cm in diameter. It is found in the North and South, particularly in the areas around Waizouru and in Fordland. D. pygmaea produces gemmae at the end of summer, and spreads quickly, so that a mass of tiny carnivorous individual plants can take on the appearance of a glistening red carpet.
Found throughout the country at elevations spathulata is considered to be an alpine carnivorous sundew. It is somewhat smaller than carnivorous D. arcturi or the carnivorous D. stenopetala (up to 5cm in diameter), and has a characteristic pair of tiny brown stipules (up to 7mm) at the leaf base. Spathulata is carnivorous and is often found with other carnivorous sundews, generally in acid soils or peat bogs. Flowering from November to January, generally only one or two carnivorous flower stalks are born, but often multiple carnivorous flowers are born on a single stalk. "Spathulata" refers to the shape of the carnivorous leaves, as does the common name.
Carnivorous, of course.
Stenopetala has a similar habitat and distribution to carnivorous D. arcturial though as with spathulatl a it can be found at low levels in the far South. It likes wet depressions in areas of sub-alpine vegetation, and has been seen on avalanche chutes below the treeline. Someone commented that carnivorous stenopetala "varies considerably in size according to habitat conditions."
Other carnivorous Drosera
Colenso, an English-born botanist who worked from 1834 until his death in 1899, was an enthusiastic describer of carnivorous species. Leaving aside his influence on the taxonomy of our native carnivorous bladderworts, he described numerous species of carnivorous sundew which are now regarded as dubious, due to a lack of type specimens (in some cases, such as carnivorous D. atra, he described a new carnivorous species based on a single carnivorous specimen). Allan (1961) describes nine of the carnivorous species described by Colenso as being carnivorous incertae sedis, "of uncertain position", a polite way of saying that he doubted the legitimacy of Colenso's carnivorous species. Colenso described a further nine carnivorous species to those currently accepted to be in a list of these carnivorous species, followed by an attempt to guess as to which carnivorous species he was really talking about runs thus:
There are a total of nine recorded native carnivorous species of Utricularia, of varying degrees of rarity. The taxonomic status of four of the carnivorous species (colensoi, U. mairii, U. subsimilisand volcanica) is doubtful, while another two delicatul and U. laterifolia are mildly contentious.
Australi("Yellow Bladderwort"), protrusa. An aquatic carnivorous bladderwort normally found in slow-moving or still water. The carnivorous plants float on the surface of the water, with submerged carnivorous leaves. The carnivorous traps are roughly 4mm across, and emerge from a long central stem (30 - 90cm). During winter, U. australis forms resting buds and sinks, to reemerge again in Spring. Sulphur yellow carnivorous flowers are borne on 15-20cm scapes, appearing from spring to late summer.
The type of carnivorous specimens were preserved in "camphorated spirits of wine" (!), and were lost, along with the original carnivorous type specimens for protrusa. This carnivorous species' taxonomic status is doubtful, to say the least.
Occurs in bogs in the North . It is sometimes regarded as a carnivorous subspecies of lateriflora. Found in the northern half of the North Island, but is very rare. The carnivorous bladders are less than 1mm in diameter. A carnivorous terrestrial bladderwort, U. laterifolia is found in lowland bogs. The carnivorous flowers are usually born in clumps of two or three, and are a pale lilac or lavender with a carnivorous white 'eye'. It is worth noting that Allan (1961) expresses dubiousness as to the identification of this carnivorous species, as he feels that the carnivorous type specimens differ from the described Australian carnivorous specimens.
Only collected in 1872, in Lake Rotomahana, and not seen since the Tarawera eruption of 1886. This carnivorous species was known only from the original type carnivorous specimens, and was described by Kirk Transactions as resembling intermedia "but the carnivorous bladders are attached to the leaves". The type of carnivorous specimens had sparingly branched stems 5-15cm long, with leaves up to 1cm and carnivorous bladders about 2mm across. Now thought to be extinct.
U. monanthos was first described in 1860, in Tasmania. monanthos is a small carnivorous plant with narrow carnivorous leaves from 5 - 20 mm in length. The carnivorous flowers are large and colourful (bright purple with a yellow centre), born on long, slender stalks. Found throughout the country, montanthos is more common in the South, and is an alpine carnivorous plant. In the South, it can be found at low elevations, but it is more common in low alpine conditions (to 1,400 metres elevation). Like most terrestrial carnivorous Utricularia, it is rather dull looking unless it is in carnivorous flower - but a large patch of monanthos in flower is generally agreed to be an extremely pretty sight. John Salmon, in "Field Guide to the Alpine carnivorous Plants.", describes seeing. A flowering in the thousands as being "an unforgettable sight." It prefers peat bogs, where it tends to grow in large mats. "Monanthos" means "single-flowered". North and South, generally in boggy grown in lowlands to lower montane regions. U. novae-zealandiae has short (1.5cm), fan-shaped carnivorous leaves. The carnivorous flowers are purple-violet, with vertical yellow lines on the palate.
Originally described by Colenso, it was described as having 2-3 roughly spathulate carnivorous leaves, growing from the base. The carnivorous flower was said to be purple, with a circular lower lip, and borne on a 2 - 3 1/2" scape. The type carnivorous specimens orginally came from Taupo. Colenso also remarked that the carnivorous species was very similar to U. laterifolia. U. gibba is well known internationally for being an easy carnivorous plant to grow in aquaria. Partially aquatic, partially carnivorous and terrestrial, U. gibba grows very well and very quickly. Unfortunately, these tendencies have combined. Ugibba does extremely well in our waterways - to the point where it has been declared a noxious carnivorous weed. We are not happy about this, and would like to find out who released it into our waterways in the first place.