Venus flytrap
Dionaea muscipula
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Dionaea muscipula
- Group
- Eudicots
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Droseraceae
- Continent
- North America
- Habitat
- Wetlands
- Form
- Herb
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Flower colour
- White
- Blooms in
- Spring
- Use
- Ornamental
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- In the wild it grows only in a small area of the coast of North and South Carolina.
- A trap closes only if two trigger hairs are touched within about 20 seconds, so raindrops do not fool it.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q155825 · All plants · All entries