There are around 500 species, Anne.
Here's a
Sarracenia hybrid. Remember the story of Socrates? How they made him drink Hemlock? The active ingredient in Hemlock is connine, and this plant mixes connine in with it's nectar, which it exuded around the lip, above the trap. The flies and wasps eat the nectar, are paralyzed in a few seconds, fall in and are eaten. I never fertilize these, and by the end of the year their traps are full of bugs that they've captured. The hairs you can see point down, which keeps the bugs from crawling out.
