Drosera anglica

English sundew

Family: Droseraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

English sundew is a rare (CNPS 2B.3) California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada, and southern Warner Mountains in swamps and peatlands at elevations of 1,300 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white flowers with delicate petals 8 to 12 millimeters long. Growing with thin, erect stems 6 to 25 centimeters tall, it forms a distinctive rosette of leaves close to the ground. Its leaves have slender blades 15 to 50 millimeters long and 2 to 7 millimeters wide, characteristic of the carnivorous sundew family with sticky glandular surfaces for trapping insects. The small seed is 1 to 1.5 millimeters long with a distinctive longitudinally striate-netted texture.

Habitat: Swamps, peatlands, often with

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1300-2000 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, n SNH (n of Lake Tahoe), s Wrn

California counties: Modoc, Siskiyou, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.