Drosera peltata plant6 (15219955810)

Description:

Description: Native, cool season, perennial herb with flowering stems to 50 cm tall. Plants die back to underground corms during summer and start regrowing when wet during autumn-winter. Leaves are usually in a flat basal rosette and cauline, although the rosette may be missing; lamina of basal leaves are reddish, spathulate to fan-shaped and 4–7 mm long; stem leaves are alternate, peltate with 2 acute lobes and 4–7 mm long. Flowerheads are cymes to raceme-like, 1-sided and 5–10-flowered. Sepals 5, are hairy. Petals 5, are usually light pink. Flowering is in spring. Grows in areas which are wet over autumn to spring. These plants were growing in Dungog Common on shallow soils and never exceeded 10 cm tall. Date: 28 September 2014, 10:46. Source: Drosera peltata plant6. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.