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distinguish this architecture from a pitcher or a sticky trapping surface.", "Inspect the inner trap surfaces for sensory hairs, recording photographic evidence rather than repeatedly triggering closure.", "Check the combined presence of a terrestrial basal rosette and terminal snap traps; snap closure alone does not distinguish the plant from the aquatic waterwheel plant.", "Require several morphological features together; red coloration, trap size or a seller's cultivar label alone is insufficient identification evidence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "confirmed | provisional | unresolved; supporting observations and reference", "why_it_matters": "Prevents applying flytrap-specific care to another carnivorous plant." }, { "name": "Trap length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm; measurement landmarks, trap maturity and date required", "why_it_matters": "Supports growth comparison without treating size as a species or cultivar diagnosis." }, { "name": "Individual trap state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "developing | open | closed | reopening | senescent | damaged | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed closure from an unsupported inference that digestion is occurring." }, { "name": "Seasonal growth state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "active growth | entering dormancy | dormant | resuming growth | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Makes reduced growth interpretable against season and cultivation history." }, { "name": "New-leaf production", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "new leaves per observation interval, with interval in days", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish isolated trap loss from declining whole-plant performance." }, { "name": "Irrigation-water conductivity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "µS/cm; 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[USFWS species account](https://www.fws.gov/species/venus-fly-trap-dionaea-muscipula).", "questions": [ { "text": "What light exposure and natural or assisted prey capture have been documented?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "nutritional-context-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a proposed feeding intervention for this plant's current condition?", "kind": "action", "id": "nutritional-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-growth-and-condition", "name": "Seasonal growth and condition", "description": "Interpret growth and tissue changes over time.", "rationale": "A declining trap and a declining plant require different assessments, especially around seasonal transitions.", "layers": [ { "id": "seasonal-state", "name": "Seasonal state", "description": "Dormancy assessment grounded in environmental and growth history.", "findings": [ { "id": "dormancy-evidence", "name": "Dormancy evidence", "description": "Treat dormancy as a supported interpretation rather than a default explanation for poor growth.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature, day-length and growth history supports the assigned seasonal state?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dormancy-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What observations would distinguish seasonal slowdown from dehydration, tissue decay or another stress?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dormancy-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "trap-versus-plant-decline", "name": "Trap versus plant decline", "description": "Distribution and progression of damage across the plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "decline-pattern", "name": "Decline pattern", "description": "Compare loss of older traps with new-leaf production and changes affecting multiple tissues.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is deterioration confined to older traps, or does it affect emerging leaves and the plant centre?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "decline-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations justify monitoring, changing conditions or seeking a specialist diagnosis?", "kind": "action", "id": "decline-pattern-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-environment", "name": "Growing environment", "description": "Measured cultivation conditions and their suitability for this plant.", "rationale": "Care decisions require environmental evidence and must distinguish cultivated conditions from wild habitat descriptions.", "layers": [ { "id": "water-and-substrate", "name": "Water and substrate", "description": "Water chemistry, substrate composition and moisture history.", "findings": [ { "id": "root-zone-exposure", "name": "Root-zone exposure", "description": "Record irrigation inputs and substrate conditions before attributing symptoms to water or mineral stress.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the water conductivity, substrate ingredients and recent moisture conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "root-zone-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "Which sourced protocol supports changing irrigation, replacing substrate or adding nutrients?", "kind": "action", "id": "root-zone-exposure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "light-and-temperature", "name": "Light and temperature", "description": "Exposure histories around growth changes and relocation.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-transition", "name": "Exposure transition", "description": "Link symptoms and growth responses to measured conditions, including recent changes of location.", "questions": [ { "text": "What light and temperature exposure occurred before and after the observed change?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-transition-q01" }, { "text": "What acclimation procedure is supported for the proposed move and current seasonal state?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-transition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproduction-and-lineage", "name": "Reproduction and lineage", "description": "Flowering, seed production and vegetative propagation.", "rationale": "Reproductive success and lineage cannot be inferred from plant count or a shared label.", "layers": [ { "id": "flowering-and-seed", "name": "Flowering and seed", "description": "Sexual reproduction with explicit outcome evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "seed-parentage-and-outcome", "name": "Seed parentage and outcome", "description": "Record flowering, pollen source, seed formation and germination as separate events.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which maternal plant and known or unknown pollen source produced this seed batch?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "seed-parentage-and-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "How many seeds germinated out of how many sown, over what interval and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seed-parentage-and-outcome-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "vegetative-propagation", "name": "Vegetative propagation", "description": "Propagation events and relationships between resulting plants.", "findings": [ { "id": "clone-continuity", "name": "Clone continuity", "description": "Vegetative reproduction can arise from rhizome buds; record the actual propagation method and source plant. [USFWS species account](https://www.fws.gov/species/venus-fly-trap-dionaea-muscipula).", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this plant produced by seed, division, tissue culture or another documented method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "clone-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Are counted plants separate genetic individuals or vegetative descendants of one source?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "clone-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wild-context-and-responsible-actions", "name": "Wild context and responsible actions", "description": "Population context, origin evidence and constraints on intervention.", "rationale": "A cultivated specimen's condition does not establish wild-population status or permission to collect and transfer plants.", "layers": [ { "id": "population-and-habitat", "name": "Population and habitat", "description": "Species occurrence linked to habitat condition and survey evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "habitat-change", "name": "Habitat change", "description": "Wild habitats occur in the Carolinas; fire suppression, habitat conversion and hydrological alteration are relevant pressures. 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Dionaea muscipula sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Dionaea muscipula from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a Dionaea muscipula is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Dionaea muscipula and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Dionaea muscipula is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Dionaea muscipula is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Dionaea muscipula is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Dionaea muscipula moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Dionaea muscipula passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Dionaea muscipula between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Dionaea muscipula, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Dionaea muscipula is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Dionaea muscipula is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Dionaea muscipula, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Dionaea muscipula from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Dionaea muscipula from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Dionaea muscipula does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Dionaea muscipula pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Dionaea muscipula judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Dionaea muscipula lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Dionaea muscipula, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Dionaea muscipula hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Dionaea muscipula came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Dionaea muscipula and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Dionaea muscipula is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Dionaea muscipula, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Dionaea muscipula, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Dionaea muscipula is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", 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