Suggestions for Carnivorous Plants to Grow

Easy to Grow Carnivorous Plants:

• Venus Flytrap  Dionaea muscipula
• Threadleaf Sundew  Drosera filiformis
• Cape Sundew  Drosera capensis
• Forked Sundew  Drosera binata
• Yellow Pitcher Plant  Sarracenia flava
• Purple Pitcher Plant  Sarracenia purpurea
• White Top Pitcher Plant  Sarracenia leucophylla
• Early Butterwort  Pinguicula primuliflora
• Terrestrial bladderworts i.e., Utricularia bisquamata, U. sandersonii, U. subulata

Moderately Easy to Grow Carnivorous Plants:

• Cobra Lily  Darlingtonia californica
• Pygmy sundews  Drosera spp.
• Other sundews not mentioned above  Drosera spp.
• Australian Pitcher Plant  Cephalotus follicularis
• Highland Hanging Pitcher Plants  Nepenthes spp.
• Mexican Butterwort  Pinguicula moranensis caudata
• Temperate Butterworts  Pinguicula spp.
• Other Pitcher Plants not mentioned above  Sarracenia spp.
• Aquatic Bladderworts  Utricularia spp.

Difficult to Grow Carnivorous Plants:

• Waterwheel  Aldrovanda vesiculosa
• Rainbow plants  Byblis spp.
• Australian tuberous sundews  Drosera spp.
• Dewy Pine  Drosophyllum lusitanicum
• Sun Pitcher Plants  Heliamphora spp.
• Lowland Hanging Pitcher Plants  Nepenthes spp.
• Epiphytic bladderworts  Utricularia spp.