Meat-eating bog plants

don't grow in the Midwest, right?
Sarracenia purpurea does!

The "pitcher plant" likes soil to be water logged, nutrient poor, and highly acidic.

Give it good soil, fertilizer, and mineral enriched water, and you just might kill this rugged little carnivore.

For potted plants, use distilled water or rainwater. Above all, keep it... dare I say this...

moist

at all times.

I'm a little concerned about the spider that lived among these plants, eating other little bugs. Haven't seen new webs, or the spider, for days. Is it possible the plant ate my little spider?

Here is the color version