This set of three Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) comes in 3-inch pots, making it an ideal introduction to carnivorous plant growing for hobbyists, collectors, and curious minds of all ages. Each plant is a living, active predator that snaps its jaw-like traps shut when insects or spiders touch the trigger hairs inside — requiring contact with at least two hairs within 20 seconds to spring the trap. Once prey is captured, digestive enzymes break it down over the course of about a week, providing the plant with the minerals it cannot get from nutrient-poor soil.

Native to the boggy, acidic soils of North and South Carolina, Venus flytraps thrive with full to partial sun outdoors or bright indirect light indoors. They require rain, distilled, or purified water — never tap water — and do best when their pots sit in a shallow tray with about 1/4 to 1/2 inch of standing water. The plants enter a natural winter dormancy period, during which watering should be reduced to keep the soil barely moist until new growth resumes in spring. Plants in this 3-pack may vary slightly in size and are expected to grow to 5 inches or more in diameter at maturity.