Drosera brevifolia
Drosera brevifolia is a tiny rosette sundew, usually about 3 cm across, with deep red to purplish spoon-shaped leaves and large pink or white flowers in spring. It grows on wet sand and peat at the edges of ponds, marshes and ditches on the lowland coastal plain of the southeastern United States. It is short-lived, often behaving as a winter annual, so growers keep it going from its plentiful seed.
Where it grows wild
It grows on wet, open, sandy or peaty ground: pond and marsh margins, swamp edges, seepy pine flatwoods, roadside ditches and ditch banks. These sites are sunny and kept wet by seepage or a high water table, and competing vegetation is low or regularly cleared by fire or mowing.
It is a lowland plant of the coastal plain and interior lowlands, roughly from sea level to a few hundred metres. The records include no specific elevations.
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