Drosera aurantiaca
An annual sundew from Drosera section Arachnopus (the D. indica group), found in the Kimberley of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Allen Lowrie described it in 2014 and named it for its orange flowers. It grows from seed in open, sunny seepages, spring-fed rock platforms and swamp margins on sandstone plateaus, and it flowers mainly from May to August as the wet ground slowly dries. Grow it hot, in full sun and constantly wet, and treat it as a seed-raised annual.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe freshwater springs and seeps with shallow organic soil over rock platforms, perched semi-permanent lakes and floodplain swamps on sandstone plateaus, moist rocky depressions among granite boulders, and sedgy open woodland and grassland. In all of them the ground stays saturated long after the rains.
Recorded from near sea level to about 460 m, and many records come from the Kimberley plateau at about 410–420 m.
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