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Because they live in environments lacking in the nutrients that can be gained from invertebrates (e.g. in highly acidic soil). This allows them to compete better against other plants. I guess non-flowering plants don't need the same nutrients so can go without. Only a beginnner+ at ecological botany so someone here can surely explain better knowing lemmy!
Because the flowers attract food in the form of insects. I must be missing something here.
Pitcher plants and flytraps use sugary secretions to attract prey not flowers.
Carnivorous plants need to attract insects to feed AND to reproduce. Of course they don't want to eat the pollinators so they usually have flowers with long stems
Flowering plants use life to spread genetics. No reason to be carnivorous if there's no reason for animals to crawl all over you