Park ranger Jesse Anderson leads dozens of people on a weekly hike in North Carolina to see some of the most unique living ...

Venus flytraps’ considerable eccentricities have ... a University of Wisconsin botanist who has studied the plant’s ecology. “Once any plant is brought into cultivation, you have a system ...

As fascinating as these plants are, none have captured the human imagination in the way that the Venus flytrap has. Even Charles Darwin was captivated by this perennial, which is indigenous to the ...

While you can buy the hairy carnivorous plant at garden centers, and even Walmart, Venus flytraps only grow in the wild in one place on Earth: the wet longleaf pine forests of the Carolinas ...

This year, the advert involves a Venus flytrap named Snapper who wants nothing more than to be a Christmas tree and finally gets his wish after a tear-jerking moment that sees him cast out into ...

In 2011, a horticulturist named Mathias Maier stumbled across an unusual mutant of a Venus flytrap, a carnivorous plant that traps and feeds on insects. Scientists recently discovered that the ...

CONWAY — Venus flytraps don’t usually trap flies at all, Jim Luken, a botanist and retired biology professor, said. Flying insects are attracted to the plants’ flowers, which sit high above ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the ...

Damon Waitt looking at Venus flytraps at the NC Botanical Garden (Chloe Rafferty/CBS 17) Damon Waitt, the director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, is celebrating a big ...

Venus flytraps are small, insect-eating plants native to only 12 counties in southeast North Carolina and parts of South Carolina, thriving in nutrient-poor, fire-dependent habitats.