On a bright, sunny day in mid-June, a friend and I strolled on the Lower Loop trail at Eaglecrest. Out in the meadows, we found the white flowers of starflower and three-leaf goldthread; long-leaf and ...

Meet the butterwort - a carnivorous plant with a killer cling. Unlike snap traps or pitchers, this plant lures in prey with sticky, glistening leaves that insects can’t escape. In this video, we take ...

Sometimes strange scenes of nature are acted out right in our neighborhood, and we might pass by without a notice. During this hot month of July, insects abound. It seems as no surprise that these ...

Meet the butterwort - a carnivorous plant with a deceptively gentle look and a killer cling. In this video, we take a close-up look at how this sticky-leaved predator traps and digests its prey, using ...

A team of botanists from Ecuador, Germany, and the United States has described two new species of carnivorous plants with striking appearance. They are part of the butterworts (genus Pinguicula), a ...

The best time to see this plant is in the morning, just as the sun is coming up, while you quietly paddle in the backwater end of a pond, or perhaps inside a mysterious Carolina bay. By the hundreds, ...

At the very end of June, with just one monster cruise ship in, a friend and I ventured up the tram in between rain showers In a recent essay I mentioned our “discovery” of the hairy butterwort in a ...