RALEIGH, N.C. — The Venus flytrap's precarious survival in the wild along the coast of the Carolinas faces an added threat from poachers looking to cash in by uprooting and selling them.
Poachers arrested for threatening rare wild Venus flytrap
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | 3:56 p.m. CST;
updated 7:31 p.m. CST, Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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