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The North American continent is home to a wide variety of carnivorous plant species. Species from seven genera are native to the continent, and three of these genera are found nowhere else on the planet.
Genera and species
;'' Catopsis'' *''Catopsis berteroniana
''Catopsis berteroniana'' , commonly known as the powdery strap airplant or the lantern of the forest, is an epiphytic bromeliad thought to be a possible carnivorous plant, similar to ''Brocchinia reducta'', although the evidence is equivocal. It ...
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;''Darlingtonia''
*''Darlingtonia californica
''Darlingtonia californica'' —also called the California pitcher plant, the Oregon pitcher plant, cobra lily or cobra plant—is a species of carnivorous plant in the new world pitcher plant family, Sarraceniaceae. It is the sole species wit ...
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;''Dionaea''
*'' Dionaea muscipula''
;''Drosera
''Drosera'', which is commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genus, genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. 2 volumes. These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucil ...
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*'' Drosera anglica''
*'' Drosera brevifolia''
*'' Drosera capillaris''
*'' Drosera filiformis''
*'' Drosera intermedia''
*'' Drosera linearis''
*''Drosera rotundifolia
''Drosera rotundifolia'', the round-leaved sundew, roundleaf sundew, or common sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens. One of the most widespread sundew species, it has a circumboreal distribut ...
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*'' Drosera tracyi''
;''Sarracenia
''Sarracenia'' ( or ) is a genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants, commonly called trumpet pitchers. The genus belongs to the family Sarraceniaceae, which also contain the closely allied genera '' Darlingtonia'' and '' ...
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*'' Sarracenia alabamensis''
*'' Sarracenia alata''
*''Sarracenia flava
''Sarracenia flava'', the yellow pitcherplant, is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae. Like all the Sarraceniaceae, it is native to the New World. Its range extends from southern Alabama, through Florida and Georgia (U.S. state), Ge ...
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*'' Sarracenia jonesii''
*'' Sarracenia leucophylla''
*''Sarracenia minor
''Sarracenia minor'', also known as the hooded pitcherplant, is a perennial, terrestrial, rhizomatous, herbaceous, carnivorous plant in the genus '' Sarracenia''. Like all the ''Sarracenia'', it is native to North America.
Etymology
In 1788, t ...
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*'' Sarracenia oreophila''
*''Sarracenia psittacina
''Sarracenia psittacina'', also known as the parrot pitcherplant, is a carnivorous plant in the genus '' Sarracenia''. Like all the ''Sarracenia'', it is native to North America, in the Southeastern United States.
''Sarracenia psittacina'' emp ...
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*''Sarracenia purpurea
''Sarracenia purpurea'', the purple pitcher plant, northern pitcher plant, turtle socks, or side-saddle flower, is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae. Taxonomy
The species is further divided into two subspecies, ''S. purpurea'' subsp. ...
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*'' Sarracenia rosea''
*'' Sarracenia rubra''
;''Pinguicula
''Pinguicula'', commonly known as butterworts, is a genus of carnivorous flowering plants in the family Lentibulariaceae. They use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they ...
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*'' Pinguicula acuminata''
*'' Pinguicula conzattii''
*'' Pinguicula elizabethiae''
*'' Pinguicula filifolia''
*'' Pinguicula gigantea''
*'' Pinguicula gypsicola''
*'' Pinguicula ionantha''
*'' Pinguicula laxifolia''
*'' Pinguicula lippoldii''
*'' Pinguicula lithophytica''
*'' Pinguicula lutea''
*'' Pinguicula moranensis''
*'' Pinguicula orchidioides''
*'' Pinguicula primuliflora''
*'' Pinguicula toldensis''
*'' Pinguicula vulgaris''
;''Utricularia
''Utricularia'', commonly and collectively called the bladderworts, is a genus of carnivorous plants consisting of approximately 233 species (precise counts differ based on classification opinions; a 2001 publication lists 215 species).Salmon, B ...
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*''Utricularia amethystina
''Utricularia amethystina'', the Florida purple bladderwort, is a variable species of terrestrial bladderwort native to Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, Peru, and south-west Florida
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United ...
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*'' Utricularia breviscapa''
*'' Utricularia cornuta''
*'' Utricularia floridana''
*'' Utricularia foliosa''
*'' Utricularia geminiscapa''
*'' Utricularia gibba''
*'' Utricularia hintonii''
*'' Utricularia hispida''
*'' Utricularia hydrocarpa''
*'' Utricularia inflata''
*'' Utricularia intermedia''
*'' Utricularia juncea''
*'' Utricularia macrorhiza''
*'' Utricularia minor''
*'' Utricularia ochroleuca''
*'' Utricularia olivacea''
*'' Utricularia perversa''
*'' Utricularia petersoniae''
*'' Utricularia purpurea''
*'' Utricularia pusilla''
*'' Utricularia radiata''
*'' Utricularia regia''
*'' Utricularia resupinata''
*'' Utricularia simulans''
*'' Utricularia striata''
*'' Utricularia stygia''
*'' Utricularia subulata''
*''Utricularia vulgaris
''Utricularia vulgaris'' (greater bladderwort or common bladderwort) is an aquatic species of bladderwort found in Asia and Europe. The plant is free-floating and does not put down roots. Stems can attain lengths of over one metre in a single g ...
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References
# # # # #{{cite journal, last1=Taylor, first1=Peter, title=Notes on distribution of North American Utricularia, journal=Carnivorous Plant Newsletter, date=1991, volume=20, issue=1–2, pages=14–20, doi=10.55360/cpn201-2.pt927 , url=http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/articles/CPNv20n1_2p14_20.pdf, accessdate=16 December 2015