Rapid plant movement

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Rapid plant movement encompasses movement in plant structures occurring over a very short period of time, usually under one second. For example, the Venus Flytrap closes its trap in about 100 milliseconds. The Dogwood Bunchberry's flower opens its petals and fires pollen in less than 0.5 milliseconds. These rapid plant movements differ from the more common, but much slower "growth-movements" of plants, called tropisms.

Plants that capture and consume prey

• Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)
• Waterwheel Plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa)
• Bladderworts (Utricularia)

Plants that move leaves for other reasons

• Sensitive Plant (Mimosa pudica)
• Catclaw Brier (Mimosa nuttallii)
• Telegraph plant (Desmodium gyrans)
• Partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata)
• Sensitive pea (Cassia nictitans)
• Roemer sensitive briar (Schrankia roemeriana)
• Yellow Neptunia (Neptunia lutea)

Plants that spread seeds or pollen by rapid movement

• Squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste)
• Impatiens (Impatiens x)
• Trigger plant (Stylidium lineare, and other Stylidium species)
• Canadian Dwarf Cornel (aka Dogwood Bunchberry) (Cornus canadensis)