>They seem to be very hard to keep outside their natural swamp environment... As the NatureServe status says: >The Venus Flytrap, a carnivorous species, is a

>They seem to be very hard to keep outside their natural swamp environment... As the NatureServe status says: >The Venus Flytrap, a carnivorous species, is a narrow endemic of the coastal plain of North and South Carolina in the southeastern United States. It has very strict habitat requirements which include frequent natural fire, an open understory and low nutrient soils. There are close to 100 extant natural occurrences and between 73,000 - 158,000 total individuals. The species continues to decline, however, and should be reviewed frequently. Threats include poaching from wild populations, habitat conversion, and fire suppression. There are very few natural areas left where these plants can survive, and these areas are tiny! >Current range: The range of Venus flytrap is quite localized in scattered savannas of the coastal plain of southeastern North Carolina and adjacent eastern South Carolina in an approximate landward radius of 100 miles around Wilmington, North Carolina (North Carolina Natural Heritage Program 2010). Currently 68 extant occurrences are known from the following counties in North Carolina (the number of occurrences in parentheses): Bladen (5), Brunswick (21), Carteret (1), Columbus (3), Craven (1), Cumberland (4), Hoke (7), New Hanover (5), Onslow (12), Pender (7), and Sampson (2) (North Carolina Natural Heritage Program 2010), and Horry County (4), South Carolina (South Carolina Heritage Trust 1993b). In a way, these plants have evolved into a dead end. They mostly lost their chloroplast genomes so they can't 'go back' to being regular plants. Perhaps your mistake was that you don't set your kitchen on fire often enough? https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.159781/Dionaea_muscipula https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1597...