Drosera oreopodion
A pygmy sundew from the Darling Range foothills south-east of Perth, Western Australia, and one of the smallest carnivorous plants known, with rosettes only about 1.5 cm across and leaf blades around 1.5 mm wide. It grows in open, winter-wet heath on clayey sand with laterite gravel and flowers white in September and October. It is listed as Threatened in Western Australia and in cultivation behaves like other pygmy sundews: grown on a wet tray in bright light and multiplied from gemmae.
Where it grows wild
Low open heathland on clayey sand mixed with lateritic pebbles, sometimes white sand over laterite, on the Swan Coastal Plain margin and the northern Jarrah Forest foothills. The soil stays wet through the winter rains and bakes dry in summer; the tiny rosettes sit among low shrubs and sedges in full or nearly full sun.
Foothills of the Darling Scarp, roughly 50–300 m. Herbarium records carry no elevations.
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