Drosera modesta
A tuberous, scrambling sundew from the far south-west of Western Australia, with stems 0.3–0.8 m long that lean on surrounding plants and shield-shaped leaves with unusually long tentacles. It grows in moist spots such as stream banks and granite outcrops, and flowers white in October–November. Like other tuberous sundews it grows through the cool, wet winter and dies back to its tuber over the hot, dry summer.
Where it grows wild
Moist places in the jarrah and karri country and the south coast: stream banks and seepage around granite outcrops, on laterite, sand or clay. The stems scramble through low shrubs and sedges for support.
A lowland to low-hill species of the south-west; the sources consulted give no elevation, and the region lies mostly below about 400 m.
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