Triantha occidentalis, the western false asphodel, is a species of carnivorous flowering plant in the family Tofieldiaceae.

Triantha occidentalis is a carnivorous plant; the flower stems are covered in a sticky substance, and have tiny hairs that produce a digestive enzyme, a phosphatase. The sticky substance is able to trap small insects, which are digested by the enzyme from the hairs, allowing the plant to absorb their nutrients.^[ Other carnivorous plants have insect traps well away from flowers, in positions where pollinating insect such as bees and butterflies are nor affected; T. occidentalis's sticky flower stems are only able to trap smaller insects such as fruit flies.It was not suspected that T. occidentalis, which grows near urban centers, was carnivorous until it was found to have a genetic deletion sometimes seen in carnivorous plants, prompting investigation. The plant is, as of 2021, the only one known to trap insects this unsuspected way, but it has been suggested that there may be more

These plants are seed grown here at the Nursery from our own Plants, which were also grown from seed. 

Care: This is a temperate Carnivorous Plants that dies back in winter and are treated like a Sarracenia here at the Nursery.

Summer: Sit in 1cm Tray of water with partial to full sun, blooms in May/June. Day temperatures up to 35c+ are not uncommon 

Winter: Dies back the the pot and kept a little dryer, still sometimes sitting in 1/2cm water. -10c in winter happens occasionally but normally winter dormancy on the West Coast is around 0c.

Price is for one plant approximately 6-10cm tall, see last photo’s 

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