PLANTS Profile for Dionaea muscipula (Venus flytrap)

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Dionaea muscipula Ellis
Venus flytrap

Symbol:

DIMU4

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Droseraceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48

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Dionaea muscipula Ellis

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Distribution:
Dionaea muscipula Ellis


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USA (FL, NC, NJ, SC)

Related Taxa:
Dionaea muscipula Ellis

View 2 genera in Droseraceae, 1 species in Dionaea

Classification:
Dionaea muscipula Ellis

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Dilleniidae
Order	Nepenthales
Family	Droseraceae – Sundew family
Genus	Dionaea Ellis – Venus flytrap
Species	Dionaea muscipula Ellis – Venus flytrap

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Dionaea muscipula Ellis

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

North Carolina:
venus flytrap		Special Concern

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Dionaea muscipula Ellis

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Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Dionaea muscipula Ellis

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account, photographs, and distribution from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 22008.

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View photographs and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

Time Generated: 06/19/2013 01:02 AM CDT