Drosera scorpioides
Drosera scorpioides, the shaggy sundew, is one of the largest pygmy sundews. It comes from south-western Western Australia, where it grows in full sun on white sand, clay and laterite around swamps and outcrops. It grows through the cool, wet winter, flowers pink and white from August to October, and builds an upright stem up to 10 cm tall that is clothed in old dead leaves, which gives it the shaggy look. Grow it as a bright, cool-winter, summer-drier pygmy sundew and propagate it from its winter gemmae.
Where it grows wild
FloraBase records it on white sand and clay near swamps, on sand ridges and on rocky laterite outcrops, in open heath and woodland openings of the Jarrah Forest, Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee and Esperance Plains. The soil is wet to waterlogged in winter and dries hard in summer.
A lowland plant of the south-west, mostly below 400 m, although the sources give no elevation figures.
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