Venus Flytrap Botanical Art Key Ring

This attractive keychain features a gorgeous botanical illustration of the Venus Flytrap. Makes a great gift for a gardener, landscaper, florist, botanist, biology teacher, or anyone who loves plants and nature. The text reads: “Venus Flytrap” “Dionaea muscipula”. You can customise it, change or delete the text, or change the background colour if you’d like. Want this or a similar design on another item? Browse my BotanicalArt Shop. The Venus Flytrap, scientific name Dionaea muscipula, is the only member of the genus Dionaea in the sundew family, the Droseraceae. A carnivorous plant, it catches and digests its prey, mostly insects and arachnids, in the trapping structure, which is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plants leaves, and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. A native of coastal North Carolina and northern South Carolina, it grows in open bogs. It is also a popular cultivated plant. Our exclusive botanical illustration is our colour version, based on the one by naturalist and artist Isaac Sprague in The Genera of the Plants of the United States, published in 1849 and written by Asa Grey. Adapted here in colour, the original is in black and white. We also have the black and white, as well as two different full colour versions, in our BotanicalArt shop.