Drosera platypoda
The fan-leaved sundew is a tuberous perennial, 15–20 cm tall, of Drosera section Stolonifera, endemic to the far south-west of Western Australia. It has a basal rosette plus alternate stem leaves. It grows in winter-wet sand and peaty soils in heath and open jarrah forest, emerges from its tuber with the autumn rains, flowers in spring (October) and dies back to the tuber for the dry summer. Flowering is strongly promoted by fire.
Where it grows wild
Wikipedia gives winter-wet sandy soils in heathland. Herbarium and field labels add grey-black sand in seasonally inundated woodland and sedgeland near Walpole, peaty sandy clay in open herbfield, moist to soggy sandy clay over laterite on wetland plains, deep grey sand in wet dune hollows, stony soil between shrubs on the Stirling Range approaches, grey rocky clay on hilltops, and jarrah–banksia forest tracks. Several collectors note abundant flowering the season after a fire.
Lowland to low hills: specimen elevations are about 20–305 m.
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