Carnivorous plants

Connected Sites: 13

WHS where carnivorous plants can be found in the wild.

Connected Sites

  • Canaima National Park
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.74
    26
    3
    The vegetation, isolated for millennia on infertile soils, is characterized by endemism and carnivory, eg: Heliamphora spp.,Drosera roraima and Utricularia humboldtii. (UNEP-WCMC)
  • Kakadu National Park
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.85
    91
    9
    Yellow bladderwort (Utricularia fulva)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Rainforests of the Atsinanana
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.49
    43
    3
    Nepenthes masoalensis
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Wet Tropics of Queensland
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.50
    139
    8
    Drosera adelae, Drosera schizandra and Nepenthes mirabilis
    See www.wettropics.gov.au
  • Great Barrier Reef
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.20
    182
    8
    Drosera adelae, native to Hinchinbrook Island
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.16
    26
    3
    includes five species of carnivorous plants, one being the sole Cuban epiphyte Pinguicula lignicola (UNEP-WCMC)
  • The Flow Country
    The Flow Country
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.07
    42
    4
    "The lack of nutrients in the bog has led to some impressive adaptations to allow plants to survive. Some plants survive the lack of nutrients in the soil by finding their food elsewhere- they trap insects and secrete enzymes to digest them!" (official website)
    See theflowcountry.org.uk
  • Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.76
    73
    17
    local carnivorous pitcher plants can be seen all over the province of Ifugao
  • Mount Hamiguitan
    Mount Hamiguitan
    Philippines
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.73
    13
    4
    nepenthes hamiguitanensis
  • Kinabalu Park
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.25
    93
    6
    the richest collection in the world for the Nepenthes pitcher plants (five of the thirteen are found nowhere else on earth) which reach spectacular proportions (the largest-pitchered in the world being the endemic Nepenthes rajah: an insectivorous pitcher plant. It is endemic to Mount Kinabalu and neighbouring Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah (wiki)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Gunung Mulu
    Gunung Mulu
    Malaysia
    Inscribed: 2000
    4.11
    58
    6
    various species of Nepenthes
  • Everglades
    Everglades
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.68
    259
    15
    Bladderwort (Utricularia)
    See www.nps.gov
  • Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.40
    37
    5
    Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) in Kobuleti Strict Nature Reserve.
    See en.wikipedia.org