Don't quote me on this, but the laws governing the VFT's are for their native range. Since Florida is not their native range, I guess they turn their collective governmental heads at the prospect of collecting from a naturalized site. I have written Andy Lanier in Florida, and also read in a book from the late 40's that these plants were there, and introduced. I was 11 at the time ('61) and suprised that VFT's were anywhere but where I had learned they would be. Andy read the same book, and found these plants in the mid '50's. I am with Andy and some others that feel the plants were introduced and not brought in on the feet of birds. Schnell is an excellent grower, but he, like me, doesn't know everything, and we leave room for speculation.