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Discover the ultimate starter plants that will ignite your gardening journey! These beginner-friendly beauties are perfect for unleashing your inner plant parent!

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Transform your outdoor patio or garden into a stunning oasis with these gorgeous plants!

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Carnivorous Houseplants

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Carnivorous beauties to bring a thrilling twist to your indoor garden!

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Welcome to California Carnivores

Promoting conservation through cultivation since 1989!

For over 30 years, we have grown and sold the widest variety of carnivorous plants in the United States. Venus flytraps, American pitcher plants, sundews, butterworts, bladderworts, tropical pitcher plants and others - all commercially cultivated for either the curious beginner or the discriminating collector who wants the highest quality plants. We are closed to the public and our plants are only available online.

Best Selling Plants

Drosera capensis “Mini Red” Potted
Drosera capensis “Mini Red” Potted
Drosera capensis “Mini Red” Potted

Drosera capensis “Mini Red” Potted

$ 14.99

Pinguicula x “St Elmo’s Fire” BARE ROOT
Pinguicula x “St Elmo’s Fire” BARE ROOT
Pinguicula x “St Elmo’s Fire” BARE ROOT

Pinguicula x “St Elmo’s Fire” BARE ROOT

$ 74.99

Dionaea Red Dragon
Dionaea m. 'Red Dragon' Potted
Dionaea m. 'Red Dragon' Potted

Dionaea m. 'Red Dragon' Potted

$ 14.99

Nepenthes ventricosa Potted
Nepenthes ventricosa Potted
Nepenthes ventricosa Potted

Nepenthes ventricosa Potted

$ 14.99

carnivorous plant bog

3 Plant Beginner’s Bog Kit

$ 59.99

Pinguicula x “Lover’s Lane” BARE ROOT
Pinguicula x “Lover’s Lane” BARE ROOT
Pinguicula x “Lover’s Lane” BARE ROOT

Pinguicula x “Lover’s Lane” BARE ROOT

$ 24.99

Dionaea m. ‘Eruption’ Potted
Dionaea m. ‘Eruption’ Potted
Dionaea m. ‘Eruption’ Potted

Dionaea m. ‘Eruption’ Potted

$ 34.99

Sarracenia rubra ssp. gulfensis Potted
Sarracenia rubra ssp. gulfensis Potted
Sarracenia rubra ssp. gulfensis Potted

Sarracenia rubra ssp. gulfensis Potted

From $ 19.99

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Nepenthes edwardsiana CalCarn Clone Potted

Nepenthes edwardsiana CalCarn Clone Potted

$ 424.99 $ 299.99
Sarracenia psittacina Potted

Sarracenia psittacina Potted

From $ 14.99

Pinguicula x “Watermelon Punch” BARE ROOT

Pinguicula x “Watermelon Punch” BARE ROOT

$ 34.99

Drosera capensis narrow sundew

Drosera capensis 'narrow leaf' Potted

$ 9.99

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On Sale Plants

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Dionaea m. “Jabberwocky”

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15%

Nepenthes edwardsiana

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Sarracenia leucophylla “Georgia Last Site, Clone D”

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FAQs

You can grow carnivorous plants in terrariums and we recommend Mexican Pinguicula, Nepenthes, Cape Sundews and Tropical/Indoor Sundews

While there is some variability based on your location, plants like Sarracenia, Venus flytraps and temperate Drosera do well outdoors!

Many carnivorous plants make great houseplants! Try Nepenthes, Drosera capensis, Pinguicula

Drosera capensis is THE perfect beginner's plant! Cape sundews are handsome, dewy plants that are very easy to grow. They will catch gnats, fruit flies, and flies and can easily grow on a sunny kitchen windowsill.

While all carnivorous plants have a voracious appetite, Sarracenia are the most impressive! Their pitchers will fill with wasps, flies and beetles by the end of the summer.

Carnivorous plants require specialized soil that is free of nutrients and minerals. Depending on the species we use a different, custom blended mix. We have all of our soil recipes available in the FAQ!

Venus flytraps are best grown outdoors in most areas, preferring full sun, good airflow and all the hustle and bustle of the outdoors!

We ship all packages via USPS Priority Mail, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Please note that shipping times do not include processing time of 10 - 15 business days, 2-3 weeks, before your order leaves the nursery. Order processing accounts for your place in our order queue, and the time it takes our team to pull, clean, wrap, and pack your plants for shipment.