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Species of carnivorous plant

This article is about the plant. For other uses, see Venus Flytrap (disambiguation).

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to the temperate and subtropicalwetlands of North Carolina and South Carolina, on the East Coast of the United States.^[4] Although various modern hybrids have been created in cultivation, D. muscipula is the only species of the monotypicgenusDionaea.

It is closely related to the waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa) and the cosmopolitan sundews (Drosera), all of which belong to the familyDroseraceae.^[5]Dionaea catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids—with a "jaw"-like clamping structure, which is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves; when an insect makes contact with the open leaves, vibrations from the prey's movements ultimately trigger the "jaws" to shut via tiny hairs (called "trigger hairs" or "sensitive h