is a venus flytrap native or exotic to florida?

Question

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Answer 1

They are native to North Carolina. To my knowledge that is the only place they are native. Some have been taken from NC and I'm sure carried to Florida as 'transplants', but I don't think they are native.

""Although it has been successfully transplanted and grown in many locales around the world, the venus flytrap is found natively only in Northern Australia and in North Carolina's Green Swamp""

Answer 2

The Venus Flytrap is native to southern North Carolina and nothern South Carolina. There is a seperate stand of Venus Flytraps in the Apalachicola National Forest in Florida however. The debate still rages among the Carnivorousplantologists whether these were planted there by man or not. One leg of migratory bird routes passes directly over the coastal plain of the Carolinas and then the Apalachicola National Forest, suggesting that seed may have traveled there on the feet of birds. Technically, the first plants to grow in Florida would not have been native, but all subsequent plant growth would be. This information was taken from the book "Carnivorous Plants of the United States and Canada", by Dr. Donald E. Schnell.

Answer 3

Venus Flytrap with Huggy Bear,

Answer 4

They are "exotic" or foreign to the USA. The only place they are known to grow natively is in Northern Australia. They do well however in nitrogen poor environments such as bogs and thus they have been transplanted and do quite well in places like North Carolina.

From Wikipedia:

"The Venus Flytrap is found in nitrogen-poor environments, such as bogs. Although it has been successfully transplanted and grown in many locales around the world, the Venus flytrap is found natively only in Northern Australia; one such place is North Carolina's Green Swamp. 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 cannot. The Venus flytrap is not a tropical plant and can tolerate mild winters.

Answer 5

They are exotic, they originated in South America, in the Amazon.

Answer 6

since i live in North Carolina, i know for a fact that the Venus
Flytrap plant is native only to N.C. and South Carolina coastal
areas.

Answer 7

I believe they are exotic. They are native to some where in india.

Answer 8

they come from the swamps in the south

Answer 9

they are exotic