High in the Hengduan Mountains of southwestern China, a small alpine flower has been doing something remarkable in plain sight for well over a century — trapping and digesting insects to nourish itself. The discovery of Saxifraga candelabrum as the first confirmed carnivorous plant in the Saxifragales order fulfills a prediction Charles Darwin committed to paper in 1875, one that science lacked the tools to verify until now. It is a reminder that nature's subtler strategies often outlast our ability to perceive them, and that the boundaries we draw around biological categories are frequently m