The Library

A plant a day

One carnivorous plant every day, drawn from the 1,717 names in the catalogue — then everything else, searchable. Nothing here is added to your collection.

Look anything up

Not sure what you have?Answer two or three questions about how it catches things and the key will name the genus.

Try a cultivar you have seen for sale, or a genus you know nothing about.

Cephalotus follicularisAlbany Pitcher Plant
Darlingtonia californicaCobra Lily
Dionaea muscipulaVenus Flytrap
Drosera capensisCape SundewHeliamphora minorSun PitcherNepenthes × ventrataHybrid Pitcher PlantNepenthes ventricosaHighland Pitcher PlantPinguicula moranensisMexican ButterwortSarracenia flavaYellow Pitcher Plant
Sarracenia leucophyllaWhite-topped Pitcher PlantSarracenia purpureaPurple Pitcher Plant

By genus

DionaeaSarraceniaNepenthesDroseraPinguiculaCephalotusDarlingtoniaHeliamphoraUtriculariaByblisDrosophyllumAldrovandaGenliseaBrocchiniaRoridulaTriphyophyllum

300 photographs from Wikimedia Commons, used under licences that permit it. Everything else in the catalogue is drawn.