Insectivorous herbs, sometimes suffrutescent, insects caught in a trap or by sticky hairs
Distribution
widely, commonly in wet, low-nutrient, acidic soils
Floral characters
Flowers bisexual, radial, sometimes reduced to a solitary flower, terminate. Sepals usually 5, slightly connate, imbricate.. Petals usually 5, distinct,, convolute. Stamens usually 5, occasionally numerous.. Filaments distinct or slightly connate. Pollengrains triporate to multiporate., released in tetrads. Carpels 3, connate. Stigmas various. Ovules 3 to numerous
Leaf characters
Usually alternate, circinate, simple, with obscure venation. Blade sensitive, forming a trap or upper side covered with conspicious, tentaclelike, mucilage-secreting hairs.
