1. Carnivorous
Plants
Alexa Singleton & Sarah
Opliger

2. Attributes
› Adaptations
to capture
› Digestion techniques
› Benefit from absorption

3. What Are They?
› Caryophyllales
› Ericales
› Lamiales

4. What Are They?
› 600
species

5. Habitat
› Wet
soils
› Found around the US
› Found globally

6. Structure/Evolution
› Tubed
leaves
› Dewy tentacles
› Rootless
› Lids

7. Adaptations
› Nitrates
› Sucrose
levels
› Coloring

8. Diet
› Insects
› Small
aquatic crustacean
› Rodents

9. Being Carnivorous
› Pro
› Low
competition
› Con
› Energy
costs

10. Predation Tactics
› Vacuuming
trap doors
› Attractive tentacles
› Pitted traps with fluid

11. YOUR TURN

12. Questions
1.
2.
3.
4.
What type of soils do carnivorous plants
live in?
What do they eat?
What is a con for being a carnivorous
plant?
What is 1 predation tactic?

13. Digestion
› Leaf
Surface
› Sealed Trap
› Pit of Stomach
› Water pool
› Commensal Organism

14. Life Cycle

15. Reproduction
› Asexually
› Sexually

16. Uniqueness
› Aldrovanda
Vesiculose
› “Waterwheel
plant”
› Rootless
› Fast
growing plant
› Fastest examples of plant movement

17. Uniqueness
› Utricularia
› “Bladderworts”
› Larger
traps
› Small trigger hairs

18. Uniqueness
› Genlisea
› Corkscrew
plant
› Small herbs
› Specialized underground leaves

19. Uniqueness
› Darlingtonia
› Cobra
Californica
Lilly
› Lobster pot traps
› Thousands of fine dense hairs

20. Medical Purposes
› Drosera
juice
› Drosera Rotundifolia
› Sarapin

21. Extinction
› Draining
wet lands
› Pollution
› Overexploitation

22. Your Turn

23. Questions
1.
2.
3.
4.
How do carnivorous plants digest their
food?
Do they reproduce sexually, asexually, or
both?
One reason carnivorous plants are
becoming extinct?
What is one medical purpose?