This insect eating plant has such a nice, innocent sounding name! All sundews belong to the genus Drosera, making it the single most widely distributed carnivorous plants the globe over, with around 135 different species in the genus. All of them are insect eaters, with fairly large appetites. They all have small sticky tentacles on the end of their leaves, in so many variations on color, structure distribution and plant size (the above plant is called a "Spoon leaf Sundew". These are probably the best carnivorous plants to purchase for first timers who want to grow a carnivorous garden. 3 more reasons bear this out: 1) they are relatively easy to grow, 2) they are in no way endangered in the wild, 3) as mentioned above, they eat a lot, so people grow several at a time to control pesky summer insects. And, hey, they are really cute!!
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