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Drosera anglica
Drosera anglica

English sundew, giant sundew
Habit Bog-loving, scapose, perennial herbs, the scapes 6-18 cm. tall.
Leaves

Leaves all basal, ascending to erect, the blades at least twice as long as wide, glandular-viscid, ascending to erect, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate to spatulate-oblong, 1-3 cm. long and 3-5 mm. broad, gradually narrowed to petioles 1.5-8 cm. long.
Flowers

Inflorescence of 1-2, somewhat 1-sided, 2- to 7-flowered racemes;

calyx deeply 5-lobed, the lobes ovate-oblong;

petals 5, white, oblong, longer than the calyx;

stamens 5, slightly shorter than the petals;

styles 4-5, bifid 2/3 their length.
Fruits

Capsule 1-celled

Drosera anglica
Flowering time June-August
Habitat Bogs and swamps from low to middle elevations.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to the Sierra Nevada of California, east to the Great Lakes region and eastern Canada.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
D. ×obovata, D. rotundifolia
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