Drosera capensis
A rosetted sundew from the southwestern and southern Cape of South Africa. It grows in open, sunny spots that stay wet all year, such as seepages, streambanks, marshes and wet cliff bases in fynbos, from sea level to about 1800 m. The climate is Mediterranean, with hot dry summers and cool wet winters, but its seeps never dry out. In cultivation it is one of the easiest carnivorous plants, wanting strong light, constantly wet nutrient-poor media and pure water.
Where it grows wild
Grows in permanently wet, nutrient-poor niches within fynbos: seepages, including vertical cliff seeps, small creeklines, marsh edges, reservoir and dam shores, and moss-covered rocks. Soils are acidic, peaty or sandy, and some populations grow in sphagnum. Across the dry-summer landscape these perennially wet sites are scattered and uncommon.
Sea level to about 1800 m. Few wild records carry an elevation, so the measured climate is not altitude-specific.
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