Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Drosera auriculata

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Goorooyaroo Nature Reserve, ACT

Flower, buds, and spent flowers. Photographer Richard Hartland, Chewton, Vic

Flower, buds, and spent flowers. Photographer bbi2, New Zealand

Flowering plant. Photographer Russell Best, near Whittlesea, Vic

Common name

Tall Sundew, Sundew

Family

Droseraceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, moist situations including near swamps and in gullies, and amongst rocks. Widespread.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.6 m high, rhizomatous. Stems hairless. Lowest leaves in a flat rosette,roundto kidney shaped, 2–6 mm in diameter, usually withering early. Stem leaves alternating up the stems or in clusters, roundish with two pointed lobes, 0.3–1.9 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, peltate, covered with glandular hairs that trap insects. Flowers with 5 white or pink petals each 3–10 mm long. Sepals 5, hairles. Flowers in 2–14-flowered clusters 3–10 cm long. Flowering: winter to summer.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Drosera~auriculata  (accessed 12 January, 2021)