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Annual/Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it on margins of natural pools in pinelands, esp clay-based Carolina bays, per Weakley's Flora

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full sun partial shade ...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Summer
Rose-purplish
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5 persistent sepals
5 persistent petals
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Drosera filiformis   FAMILY Droseraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Drosera filiformis   FAMILY Droseraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 092-01-001:
 Drosera filiformis   FAMILY Droseraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
 Drosera filiformis var. filiformis

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Drosera tracyi

 

COMMON NAME:
 Threadleaf Sundew

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image of Drosera filiformis, Threadleaf Sundew

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_drfi_001_lvd

        

Leaves 8-25(-30)cm long, < 1 mm wide; glandular hairs on leaves red to purple, per Weakley's Flora.