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Night-blooming flowers face less competition for pollinating animals than day blooming flowers do for one easy motive: There are fewer of them. Moths, who do their pollinating work at night time, seek out gentle-coloured, extremely scented flowers. Lip-like flowers with a spur end (that in all probability impressed "Little Shop of Horrors" screenplay writer Charles B. Griffith) rise on simple stems several inches into the air. These little creatures need to be positioned inside inches of a fluorescent bulb to attain their maximum potential. Little floating stomachs could be an apt description of bladderworts, the most important and most widespread genus of carnivorous plants. Pinguicula means "little greasy one" in Latin, and the leaves do have a greasy feel. The actual hazard lies within the slick, tongue-formed leaves that nestle near the ground. Sometime between late February and will, depending on the species, lovely five-petalled flowers emerge from the ground. Lurking beneath the lovely blossoms, scattered amongst hairlike stems, are a whole lot of pinhead-sized carnivorous bladders trailing set off hairs into the water. Most hairs are crimson, however on some sundews they're transparent with a bright crimson gland on the tip. Red veins distinction with the lush, green foliage, making attractive and attention-grabbing patterns.