Insectivorous plants, with hollow, pitcher-shaped leaves, and large purple flowers at the ends of naked stems.
| One species in Michigan, growing in bogs and blooming in late spring | Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea. |
DROSERACEAE, the Sundew Family
Insectivorous herbs, with a rosette of basal leaves bearing gland-tipped bristles on their upper surface, and with slender racemes of small white flowers in summer; inhabitants of bogs and swamps (2 dm. high, or less).
| 1a. Leaf-blade about as long as wide | Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia. |
| 1b. Leaf-blade about 2-3 times as long as wide | Sundew, Drosera longifolia. |
| 1c. Leaf-blade about 5-8 times as long as wide | Sundew, Drosera anglica. |
| 1d. Leaf-blade narrowly linear, about 10 times as long as wide | Sundew, Drosera linearis. |
PODOSTEMACEAE, the River Weed Family
Small submerged aquatics, growing attached to stones in running water, with dissected leaves and minute flowers.
| One species in Michigan | River Weed, Podostemum ceratophyllum. |
CRASSULACEAE, the Orpine Family
Herbs, with usually alternate leaves; the sepals, petals, and pistils each 4 or 5, or in one species the petals none, and the stamens as many or twice as many as the sepals.