Man-eating plants invade Oregon Coast!
A few miles north of Florence on Highway 101, you come to the bureaucratically named Darlingtonia State Natural Site, which is, as it happens, the only place in Oregon dedicated to the preservation of a carnivorous plant: the Darlingtonia californica (wouldn’t you know it would be a Californian).
Audrey this is not, though these bull-head ferns — also known as cobra lilies — can be a true little shop of horrors for your passing house fly, which is lured by nectar to swoop in for what turns out to be a last peek down the plant’s sticky gullet.
Nice, easy and weird walk from the car.