Top 10 Scary Plants

Here are the top 10 scary plants. Some are carnivorous, some are poisonous, and some just look super spooky! Happy Halloween!

#1 Voodoo Lily

Amorphophallus titanium

Growing up to six feet tall, this flower has the aroma of rotting meat!

#2 Venus Fly Trap

Dionaea muscipula

This carnivorous plant has vicious jaws!

#3 Black Bat Flower

Tacca chantrieri

Also called cat’s whiskers or devil’s flower, it’s whiskers can grow over a foot long!

#4 Devil’s Claw

Proboscidea louisianica

This plant’s seed pods dry out to look like a devil’s hook!

#5 Chinese Lantern

Physalis alkekengi

The dried covering of this plant’s berry looks skeletal!

#6 Bleeding Heart

Dicentra spectabilis

Count Dracula would love this plant!

#7 Ghost Plant

Monotropa uniflora

This plant likes it dark and does not care for the sun.

#8 Doll’s eyes

Actaea pachypoda

This plant is both toxic and scary to humans!

#9 Deadly Nightshade

Atropa belladonna

Black and eerie, just touching this plant can poison you!

#10 Purple Devil

Solanum atropurpureum

This is another nightshade you don’t want to touch!

Scary Plants By: Kathy Sadowski