Drosera intermedia

Sundew (Drosera intermedia)

The Middle Sundew ( Drosera intermedia) is a species in the genus Sundew ( Drosera ), a genus of carnivorous plants.

Description

The Middle sundew is a perennial herbaceous plant. It forms a basal rosette with a total height of up to 10 cm. The plant appears in the spring from a winter bud, the so-called Hibernakel.

It is characterized by numerous and fine hair, studded with a sticky secretion tentacles to catch spateligen leaves with a long two to four times as wide leaf blade, sitting on long, smooth petioles.

It flowers from July to August with 3-8 white flowers that sit in a unilateral grapes on an up to 15 cm tall spike. After flowering and the formation of egg-shaped, furrowed capsules with very many small seeds, the plant occurs in early autumn into the winter dormancy, bringing back forms a winter bud and feeds the leaves.

Dissemination

The Middle sundew occurs in the Northern Hemisphere in Europe and eastern North and South America.

In addition to the round-leaved sundew (D. rotundifolia ) and the long-leaved sundew (D. anglica ) he is the only native species of the genus in Europe, where it is found especially in nutrient-poor bogs and bog forests as well as on changing according Anmoor - sandy soils. Preferred locations are in full sun, waterlogged soils. The species is protected in Germany.

The plants are hardy and also tolerate longer periods of frost. A special form of the species occurs in South America, it differs from the normal form in that it does not form Hibernakel and is not frost hardy.