Drosera anglica

English sundew

A circumboreal sundew with long, upright, strap-shaped leaves that grows in open bogs and fens across northern Europe, Asia and North America, with outliers in Japan, California and Kauai. It is thought to have arisen as a fertile hybrid of D. rotundifolia and D. linearis. Except for the Hawaiian form, it needs a cold winter dormancy as a tight resting bud (hibernaculum).

Drosera anglica — Photo: No machine-readable author provided. NoahElhardt assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At home, aim for

Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry

Light Full sunDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

Expects a seasonal restGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

It grows in open, treeless wetland: bogs, quaking bogs and especially fens, often on wet, calcium-rich but nutrient-poor ground, frequently among sphagnum and low sedges. It sits in the wettest spots, often at pool margins and in flushes.

Mostly lowland to subalpine. Only 18 records carry an elevation (462–1919 m, median 1468 m), and they are mostly alpine Swiss and Austrian sites, so they overstate how high it usually grows.

Northern and central EuropeSiberia and the Russian Far EastJapan and KoreaCanada and AlaskaNorthern USA south to California and ColoradoHawaii (Kauai)

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.