Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula)

The most famous carnivorous plant in the world, and for good reason. Charles Darwin called the Venus flytrap one of the most wonderful plants in the world for the speed and force of its snap. It is also the only plant that can count. A single touch to a trigger hair does nothing, but a second touch within about 20 seconds shuts the trap in under a tenth of a second, so a raindrop or a bit of falling debris never wastes a snap. In the wild it grows in a narrow band of coastal bog in North and South Carolina, and nowhere else on Earth. Poaching and habitat loss have made wild plants rare, so every plant we sell is nursery-propagated and never taken from the wild.