Drosera L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 350

2. Drosera L. 1

Small plants of wet places. Leaves all basal; upper surface of lamina covered with long, red, gland-tipped, motile hairs, which entrap and digest insects. Scape slender, bearing a few-flowered, ebracteate cyme. Flowers usually 5-merous, sometimes 4- or 6- to 8-merous, open for a short time only, sometimes cleistogamous. Petals white, persistent. Stamens equal in number to the petals. Carpels usually 3; styles free, deeply bifid. 1 Scape lateral, scarcely longer than leaves 3. intermedia 1 Scape apparently terminal, considerably longer than leaves

2 Lamina orbicular; petiole hairy 1. rotundifolia 2 Lamina linear-oblanceolate; petiole glabrous 2. anglica