Drosera glanduligera
A tiny annual sundew from southern Australia, a rosette up to about 4 cm across that lives only through the cool, wet winter and spring. It is famous for its snap-tentacles, which flick crawling prey such as springtails into the sticky centre of the leaf in a fraction of a second. It is difficult in cultivation: it must be raised from seed each year under cool nights, bright light and constantly wet soil, and fed to flower and set seed.
Where it grows wild
A small terrestrial annual that grows in a wide range of open habitats and soils across southern Australia, sometimes locally abundant. It germinates with the autumn and winter rains, grows for about four months, flowers from August to November and dies as the ground dries, surviving summer as seed.
Mostly lowland and low hills; few wild records carry an elevation. The main measured sites, in the hills near Perth, are at about 300–330 m.
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