Drosera zigzagia
A small tuberous sundew from inland south-western Australia, with solitary trap leaves spaced alternately along a zigzag stem 5–7 cm tall and yellow flowers in August–September. It grows on the sandy margins of salt lakes, in full sun, during the cool, damp winter and spends the hot, dry summer underground as a tuber. It is a plant for experienced growers of tuberous Drosera who can give it a bright, cool winter and a dry summer rest.
Where it grows wild
Margins of inland salt lakes in brown sandy loam or white quartz sand, often where fresh water seeps in at the lake edge, among samphire (Tecticornia), Frankenia and tiny annual herbs such as Drosera salina and Stylidium. Some records come from open heath on granite and chenopod shrubland on clay.
Low inland plateau, roughly 250–400 m; only one GBIF record carries an elevation (334 m).
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