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Drosera anglica Huds.

Great sundew (en), Rossolis à feuilles longues (fr), Rossolis à longues feuilles (fr), Rossolis d'Angleterre (fr), Droséra à longues feuilles (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Droseraceae > Drosera

Characteristics

Plants forming winter hibernaculae, rosettes 2–6 cm diam.; stem base not bulbous-cormose. Leaves erect; stipules entirely adnate to petioles, 5 mm, margins fimbriate along distal 1/2; petiole differentiated from blade, 3–7 cm, glabrous or sparsely glandular-hairy; blade obovate to elongate-spatulate, 1.5–3.5(–5) cm × 3–7 mm. Inflorescences 1–12-flowered; scapes 3–25 cm, glabrous. Flowers 8–10 mm diam.; sepals connate basally, oblong, 5–6 × 4–5 mm, minutely glandular-denticulate; petals usually white, rarely pinkish, spatulate, 5–6 × 2–3.5 mm. Capsules 4–6 mm, <minutely tuberculose>. Seeds black, sigmoid-fusiform, 1–1.5 mm, <length 1–2 times width>, longitudinally striate-areolate. 2n = 40.
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Petioles 3–7 cm, glabrous or sparsely glandular-hairy; lf-blades narrowly obovate to elongate-spatulate, 15–35 × 3–4 mm; stipules 5 mm, adnate, fimbriate along the upper half; scape glabrous, 6–25 cm, with 1–9 fls 6–7 mm wide; sep minutely glandular-denticulate, 5–6 mm; pet white, spatulate, 6 mm; seeds black, sigmoid-fusiform, 1–1.5 mm, longitudinally striate-areolate; 2n=40. Peaty and boggy places; circumboreal, s. in Amer. to Que., n. Me., Bruce Co., Ont., n. Minn., n. Mich., n. Wis., and Calif. June–Aug. (D. longifolia, in part) Perhaps originally an amphiploid of nos. 2 [Drosera rotundifolia L.] and 4 [Drosera linearis Goldie].
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination autogamy
Spread anemochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.03 - 0.18
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 7-9
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-7

Usage

Uses environmental use medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Wart (unspecified), Corn (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 18
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -29
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Drosera anglica leaf picture by Daniel Bourget (cc-by-sa)
Drosera anglica leaf picture by Alyona Appel (cc-by-sa)
Drosera anglica leaf picture by christelle crochard (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Drosera anglica flower picture by Erich🦅 Ju (cc-by-sa)
Drosera anglica flower picture by Erwin Pronk (cc-by-sa)
Drosera anglica flower picture by Francois Halligon (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Drosera anglica world distribution map, present in Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Canada, Switzerland, China, Cameroon, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Monaco, Moldova (Republic of), North Macedonia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:321780-1
WFO ID wfo-0000945816
COL ID 6DKF9
BDTFX ID 23101
INPN ID 95436
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Drosera anglica f. pusilla Drosera longifolia Adenopa anglica Drosera linglica Drosera woodii Drosera kihlmanii Rorella longifolia Drosera anglica var. linglica Drosera anglica var. woodii Drosera anglica var. subuniflora Drosera anglica
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