Look, carnivorous plants have it rough. Sure, they have a big fan base, including some of the heaviest hitters in the world of science. Charles Darwin, for example, was so obsessed with the innocuous-looking sundew Drosera that, in an 1860 letter to Charles Lyell, he declared, “I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the world.” A few other species—real, imagined, or somewhere in between—have made it big in Hollywood and Broadway, from the grinning Venus flytrap–ish Audrey in various iterations of Little Shop of…
