<P> The Venus flytrap is found in nitrogen - and phosphorus - poor environments , such as bogs and wet savannahs . Small in stature and slow - growing , the Venus flytrap tolerates fire well , and depends on periodic burning to suppress its competition . Fire suppression threatens its future in the wild . It survives in wet sandy and peaty soils . Although it has been successfully transplanted and grown in many locales around the world , it is native only to the coastal bogs of North and South Carolina in the United States , specifically within a 60 - mile radius of Wilmington , North Carolina . One such place is North Carolina 's Green Swamp . There also appears to be a naturalized population of Venus flytraps in northern Florida as well as an introduced population in western Washington . 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 can not . The Venus flytrap is not a tropical plant and can tolerate mild winters . In fact , Venus flytraps that do not go through a period of winter dormancy will weaken and die after a period of time . </P>
<P> The Venus flytrap is found in nitrogen - and phosphorus - poor environments , such as bogs and wet savannahs . Small in stature and slow - growing , the Venus flytrap tolerates fire well , and depends on periodic burning to suppress its competition . Fire suppression threatens its future in the wild . It survives in wet sandy and peaty soils . Although it has been successfully transplanted and grown in many locales around the world , it is native only to the coastal bogs of North and South Carolina in the United States , specifically within a 60 - mile radius of Wilmington , North Carolina . One such place is North Carolina 's Green Swamp . There also appears to be a naturalized population of Venus flytraps in northern Florida as well as an introduced population in western Washington . 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 can not . The Venus flytrap is not a tropical plant and can tolerate mild winters . In fact , Venus flytraps that do not go through a period of winter dormancy will weaken and die after a period of time . </P>
where do venus flytraps grow in north carolina
where do venus flytraps grow in north carolina
the coastal bogs
the coastal bogs