Drosera cuneifolia
A small perennial rosette sundew of the south-western Cape of South Africa, about 3 cm tall and up to 15 cm across, with broad green wedge-shaped traps up to 7 cm long. It grows in permanently damp sand and peaty seeps, actively through the cool, wet winter, and flowers in early winter with pink to reddish-purple blooms that open only in the morning. Grow it like other Cape sundews: bright light, rainwater, a wet sand-peat mix and cool winters.
Where it grows wild
Wet, open ground in fynbos: marshy or damp sand, seeps, peaty patches and bare wet places, sometimes recolonising ground after fire. Herbarium labels describe it in marshy sand, damp sandy soil, wet ground and peat.
Recorded from near sea level on the Cape lowlands up to the tops of the Table Mountain range; only ten records carry an elevation, from about 300 m to around 1,000 m and one doubtful 2,000 m.
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