A Common North American Plant Was Just Discovered to Be Secretly Carnivorous

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In the wetlands of the west coast of North America - from Alaska to California - there lives a herb-like plant that has just been discovered to have the occasional taste for flesh.

While the plant – called Triantha occidentalis – employs insects to pollinate its very normal-looking flowers, it also has sticky hairs just below these flowers for trapping small insects to munch on. This sounds a bit like a conflict of interest.

A Common North American Plant Was Just Discovered to Be Secretly Carnivorous
 
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