List of carnivorous plants


This list of carnivorous plants is a comprehensive listing of all known carnivorous plant species, of which more than 750 are currently recognised. Unless otherwise stated it is based on Jan Schlauer's . Extinct taxa are denoted with a dagger.
Some of the species on this list may not satisfy certain strict definitions of plant carnivory, and could alternatively be characterised as merely paracarnivorous or protocarnivorous.

Extant species

''[Aldrovanda]''

This genus contains a single extant species.
This genus contains around 20 extant species, of which at least two are thought to be carnivorous.
The following list of 8 species is based on Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus.
This genus contains around 20 extant species, of which at least one is thought to be carnivorous.
This genus contains a single extant species.
This genus contains a single extant species.
This genus contains a single extant species.
There are around 208 species here:





''Drosophyllum''

This genus contains a single extant species.
The following list of 29 species is based on Monograph of the Genus Genlisea.

The following list of 23 species is based on Sarraceniaceae of South America.

The following list of 170 species is based on Pitcher Plants of the Old World and New Nepenthes, with the addition of newly described species.




This genus contains seven extant species, all of which are thought to be carnivorous.

This genus contains two extant species.
The following list of 8 species is based on Sarraceniaceae of North America.

Some authorities additionally recognise up to three more species:
Around 300 species of Stylidium are currently recognised.


displaying the trichomes that can trap and kill insects.
 print from William Jackson Hooker's 1823 Exotic Flora.

 print of Stylidium scandens.

This genus contains a single extant species.






''[Aldrovanda]''

Numerous extinct species of Aldrovanda have been described, all of which are known only from fossil pollen and seeds.
This genus contains a single extinct species, described from fossilised leaf material. The identification of Archaeamphora as a pitcher plant has been questioned by a number of authors.
This is a form taxon known only from fossil pollen.
This is a form taxon known only from fossil pollen.
This is a form taxon known only from fossil pollen. Three species of the "Droseridites echinosporus group" have been transferred to the genus Nepenthes.
This is a form taxon known only from fossil pollen.
Three species known only from fossil pollen and originally assigned to Droseridites have been transferred to the genus Nepenthes.
This is a form taxon known only from fossil pollen. Droseridites major and Droseridites parvus are considered synonyms of Nepenthidites laitryngewensis by some authorities.
This is a form taxon known only from what were originally described as fossil seeds. These supposed seeds have subsequently been identified as insect eggs.
This is a form taxon known only from fossil pollen.