ANTSPlantation
Carnivorous Plant Addict
This thread is used for for helping you find bogs and native carnivorous plant habitats. Never poach and take any native plants from their habitats, it is illegal, harms the population, and the plants will most likely die because they cannot adapt to new conditions. You can take photos and share it on this forum, or admire them in growing in the wild. (If you want to grow native plants and legally obtain them, there are always online sellers that sell the seeds or live plants, cultivated plants are adapted to cultivation).
Native Canadian carnivorous plants are mostly found in bogs, finding a bog sometimes can be hard, especially near eastern BC and western AB.
This is my method of finding native carnivorous plants, I look around the mountains with the satellite mode in google maps. This is a guide on the method I use to uncover native carnivorous plants by looking for bogs through satellite.
The first important skill is to know what a bog looks like through google maps, this requires some practice and some geography and ecology knowledge.
I look for mountain lakes with an open field right beside it, and some other things I cannot describe with words.
Tips when looking on google maps (for sundews):
- Mountain/high altitude lakes
- Wet flood plains
- Water visible near an open grassy area
- Logs along the lake
Tips when looking on google maps (for pinguicula)
- Wet flood plains
- Water visible near an open grassy area
- High altitude streams
Tips when looking on google maps (for utricularia, slightly harder because you cannot determine the nutrient amount through satellite)
- Ponds (you will have to know if the area has poor nutrient soil)
- Wet flood plains
- Mountain/high altitude lakes
Good signs when you arrive at the place you found on google maps:
- Sphagnum moss (of course)
- open and sunny area
- ground is very wet
- water is very clear and clean (very important)
Here are some examples of bogs I found with confirmed carnivorous plants.
This place is where I found 2 species of sundews, Drosera rotundifolia, and Drosera anglica.
Notice the grassy habitat at the edge of this high altitude lake.
Open flood plain:
Species found: Drosera rotundifolia, and Drosera anglica (these two usually comes in pairs lol)
high altitude lake with a flood plain next to it:
Species found: Drosera rotundifolia, and Drosera anglica
Bog near river:
Drosera anglica found here.
Sometimes the place might be hard to access (for example, You need to walk half a kilometer in dense woods to reach it), in that case, do it safely and do not get eaten by a bear.
Extra things I want to add:
Sometimes you'll never know where you will find them, luck is another thing. They like acidic soil so pine trees are good (not always, deciduous trees as well). Wear a very tall boot because you will need them, it is also best to have a friend accompany you.
Hopefully this guide was useful, if you do find some, we all love to see pictures of our native cps.
- ANTS Plantation
Native Canadian carnivorous plants are mostly found in bogs, finding a bog sometimes can be hard, especially near eastern BC and western AB.
This is my method of finding native carnivorous plants, I look around the mountains with the satellite mode in google maps. This is a guide on the method I use to uncover native carnivorous plants by looking for bogs through satellite.
The first important skill is to know what a bog looks like through google maps, this requires some practice and some geography and ecology knowledge.
I look for mountain lakes with an open field right beside it, and some other things I cannot describe with words.
Tips when looking on google maps (for sundews):
- Mountain/high altitude lakes
- Wet flood plains
- Water visible near an open grassy area
- Logs along the lake
Tips when looking on google maps (for pinguicula)
- Wet flood plains
- Water visible near an open grassy area
- High altitude streams
Tips when looking on google maps (for utricularia, slightly harder because you cannot determine the nutrient amount through satellite)
- Ponds (you will have to know if the area has poor nutrient soil)
- Wet flood plains
- Mountain/high altitude lakes
Good signs when you arrive at the place you found on google maps:
- Sphagnum moss (of course)
- open and sunny area
- ground is very wet
- water is very clear and clean (very important)
Here are some examples of bogs I found with confirmed carnivorous plants.
This place is where I found 2 species of sundews, Drosera rotundifolia, and Drosera anglica.
Notice the grassy habitat at the edge of this high altitude lake.
Open flood plain:
Species found: Drosera rotundifolia, and Drosera anglica (these two usually comes in pairs lol)
high altitude lake with a flood plain next to it:
Species found: Drosera rotundifolia, and Drosera anglica
Bog near river:
Drosera anglica found here.
Sometimes the place might be hard to access (for example, You need to walk half a kilometer in dense woods to reach it), in that case, do it safely and do not get eaten by a bear.
Extra things I want to add:
Sometimes you'll never know where you will find them, luck is another thing. They like acidic soil so pine trees are good (not always, deciduous trees as well). Wear a very tall boot because you will need them, it is also best to have a friend accompany you.
Hopefully this guide was useful, if you do find some, we all love to see pictures of our native cps.
- ANTS Plantation
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