Keep Your Venus Fly Trap Alive: Light, Water & Care Instructions

The Venus Flytrap is a carnivorous plant native to North and South Carolina. They typically grow in swampy regions which are low in nitrogen (and essential nutrient for plant growth) and evolved carnivory as a clever solution. Their traps are triggered by small hairs and the closing of their traps is one of the fastest momevents among all plants! Their traps often die off after trapping and digesting prey, so be careful not to trigger them — leave those traps for the bugs 🐜!

Just really proud of keeping this Venus Fly Trap alive and thriving for a bit. It was so tiny when I got it. I had one of these as a child and

Plantsmith Venus Flytrap

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Is my venus fly trap dead? I bought it a week ago, there were black leave, so I cut off the flower stalk. It's drinking distilled water but the traps don't respond