Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Drosera glanduligera
Common name
Pimpernel sundew, Scarlet sundew
Family
Droseraceae
Where found
Moist places and swamps in dry forest, woodland, heath, and grassland. Coast and ranges north from west of Jervis Bay, and south of Merimbula. Western Slopes.
Notes
Annual herb to 0.1 m high, rhizomatous. Leaves basal, in a rosette; 8–20 mm in diameter, almost round, very concave in cross section, abruptly narrowed to the leaf stalk, upper surface covered with glandular hairs that trap insects. Stipules more or less entire, fused to the base of the leaf stalk, 1–2.5 mm long. Petals orange or red, 4–5 mm long. Flowers in 1–8 clusters, each about 7–many-flowered, glandular; individual stalks bending down after flowering. Flowering: winter to spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Drosera~glanduligera (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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