Enjoy walking through a longleaf pine savanna managed with fire and find Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews and more carnivorous plants. You can also spot wild orchids, Bachman’s sparrows, quails and red-cockaded woodpeckers.

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to the temperate and subtropical wetlands of North Carolina and South Carolina, on the East Coast of the United States. [4] Although various modern hybrids have been created in cultivation, D. muscipula is the only species of the monotypic genus Dionaea.

Apr 28, 2024 · Venus flytraps are native to North Carolina, particularly in the coastal plains region, and hiking in areas like the Green Swamp Preserve or the Carolina Beach State Park offers opportunities to see them in their natural habitat.

Aug 17, 2023 · Venus flytrap in the Green Swamp Preserve in Brunswick County. Photo: J. Randall. We in the Carolinas share space with a wonderful but imperiled plant, the Venus flytrap.

Myth #1 – Venus Flytraps are “swamp” plants, and need to be immersed in lots of water at all times. This is absolutely FALSE and probably is the number one reason well-meaning people kill their Flytraps.

Aug 11, 2019 · The Venus Flytrap: A State Symbol. There are state birds, bugs, fish, flowers, and dogs—but North Carolina has a state carnivorous plant. The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is exceptional enough to deserve its own state symbol designation, and due to their rarity, it’s a felony to poach them.

Apr 21, 2021 · A Venus flytrap in the Green Swamp Preserve in North Carolina. “Watching a Venus flytrap is like watching natural selection and evolution in action,” says Randall, who works to conserve the increasingly rare plant in the face of habitat loss, poaching, and fire suppression, and collects its seeds for the garden’s seed bank.

15,000-acre nature conservancy that includes many varieties of plant life and wildlife, such as the vulnerable Venus Flytrap, and the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Call before visit for site information.

One such place is Brunswick County NC’s Green Swamp. The nutritional poverty of the soil is the reason that the plant relies on such elaborate traps: insect prey provide the nitrogen for protein formation that the soil cannot. The Venus flytrap is not a …

Sep 27, 2024 · Since 2013, Shew and his wife have conducted an annual Venus flytrap study for the Nature Conservancy in the Green Swamp, monitoring multiple plots and transects for numbers of flytraps, percentages of plants flowering, and evidence of poaching.