Venus flytraps are native exclusively to a small geographic area in the United States, specifically the coastal plains of North and South Carolina. Their native habitat includes the temperate and subtropical wetlands within roughly a 75 to 100-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina. This region comprises bogs, wet savannahs, and canebrakes with nutrient-poor, acidic, sandy, and peaty soils. Venus flytraps thrive in open areas with full sun exposure and depend on periodic fires to clear competing vegetation to maintain their habitat. They are primarily found in the longleaf pine savannas of the Coastal Plain and the Sandhills, with some populations in wet pine savannas and seasonally flooded depressions. The species does not naturally occur outside this region, although it has been introduced and naturalized in a few other places like Florida and Washington.