Drosera pygmaea
A pygmy sundew with red to yellow-green rosettes only 5–20 mm across, found in southern and eastern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. It grows on open, wet, nutrient-poor ground such as peat bogs, gumland scrub and seasonally damp clay pans, and is easily crowded out by taller plants. It is annual to biennial and reproduces by seed and by gemmae, produced from late summer to early winter.
Where it grows wild
Open ground in peat bogs, gumland and pakihi shrublands and adjoining wetlands, and seasonally damp clay pans, including over ultramafic soils. It needs bare or sparsely vegetated patches because taller species outcompete it.
From the coast to subalpine sites in New Zealand. Almost 3700 Australian and about 150 New Zealand GBIF records exist, although our pipeline found none usable, so no elevation was measured.
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