The famous carnivorous bog plant — a low clumping rosette of hinged, jaw-like snap-traps fringed with stiff "teeth" that close on insects that touch their trigger hairs. Despite its worldwide fame and houseplant ubiquity, Dionaea muscipula is native to a single tiny region: the wet, fire-maintained pine savannas and bogs within roughly a 75-mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina (and adjacent South Carolina). It is globally rare in the wild and poaching of wild plants is a serious, criminalized conservation problem, so buy only nursery-propagated stock. It is also far more demanding than its reputation suggests: it needs nutrient-poor acidic peat-and-sand soil, mineral-free water, full sun, and a genuine cool winter dormancy — and it declines and dies if treated as an ordinary warm year-round houseplant.