Poaching Venus flytraps may become a felony in NC

RALEIGH Charles Darwin called them “one of the most wonderful plants in the world.” Howard Ashman dramatized them in the whimsical musical Little Shop of Horrors. They are known as the Venus flytrap, and their only natural home in the world is in southeastern North Carolina near Wilmington and in northeastern South Carolina. But in May 2013, a massive weekend theft of more than 1,000 flytraps left Alderman Park in Wilmington nearly 90 percent barren of its signature plant. That...