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Slender pitcher plant

Purple flowers of the common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris) with sticky yellow-green leaves, growing among rocks and moss near Nome, Alaska.

Roundleaf sundew

Waterwheel plant

Crimson pitcher plant

Raffles' pitcher plant

Attenborough's pitcher plant

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Charles Darwin

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