Plants only make their own food—right? Not pitcher plants! Most pitcher plants draw in insects with their sweet-smelling nectar and slowly digest them. There i

Did you know that some plants eat special food? Sunlight is not enough for them and they lack the capacity to create their own food. That is why they prey on in

For use in schools and libraries only. Easy-to-read text explains how these unique plants attract, capture, and ingest their meals.

Because of plants' sedentary lives, they're not often placed among the more bizarre organisms on Earth. This beguiling book contains plenty of peculiar plants t