Fans of Venus flytraps and specialty license plates can rejoice. After years of being in the works, North Carolina will now see a new design featuring the unique plant added to their Rolodex plate options. With Governor Roy Cooper signing a transportation bill that encompasses many DMV changes on Wednesday, one inclusion was the remnants of a bill proposed to add a ‘Home of the Venus Flytrap’ license plate – and its origins stem from Chapel Hill. The North Carolina Botanical Garden’s advocacy nonprofit teamed up with the Friends of Plant Conservation in Raleigh in 2019 to create a specialty license plate about the carnivorous plant, which is native only to the state’s southeastern coasts. The goal of the plate is to raise money to help with the botanical garden’s research and conservation of Venus flytraps, with $20 of the annual $30 fee for drivers with the plate going toward its nonprofit. But the bill has had a long journey. After receiving hundreds of pre-orders from DMV custome...