Drosera
Drosera, commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of the soil in which the plants grow. Various species, which vary greatly in size and form, are native to every continent except Antarctica.
12 branches of this group, most-observed first
Drosera
sectionDrosera
Ptycnostigma
sectionPtycnostigma
Pygmy Sundews
sectionBryastrum
Coelophylla
sectionCoelophylla
Thelocalyx
sectionThelocalyx
Phycopsis
sectionPhycopsis
Arachnopus
sectionArachnopus
Arcturia
sectionArcturia
Lasiocephala
sectionLasiocephala
Brasiliae
sectionBrasiliae
Psychophila
sectionPsychophila
Prolifera
sectionProlifera
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1064188.