Why do the leaves of my Venus Flytrap not look like they do in the pictures?

Unlike most plants’ leaves, the leaves of the Venus Flytrap plant tend to look different in the different stages of the plant’s growing cycle.

Sometimes the leaves are long and slim, mostly during the summer; sometimes the leaves are wide, hart shaped and short, mostly during the spring; and sometimes the leafs are about half as long as the summer ones but a bit hart shaped at the top, mostly during the fall, before going dormant.

However, with all of the cultivated varieties (cultivars) and their variations in circulation, it is now harder to distinguish the plants stages in it’s dormancy cycle from leaf shape alone.