Found out yesterday that Venus flytraps only grow in a 75-mile radius in North Carolina

I was reading about carnivorous plants for a terrarium idea and stumbled on this. The wild ones are all basically from around Wilmington, NC, and nowhere else on Earth. Has anyone else been surprised by how specific a plant's native range can be?

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the_fiona13d ago

Read once that pitcher plants have a similar thing, they only grow in one specific bog in Alabama. Nature is weirdly specific like that.

felix15513d ago

Is it really that specific though? I've heard that same claim about a bunch of different plants and they usually turn out to have a wider range. Seems like one of those nature facts that gets exaggerated online.