486

Forb
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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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple

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

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p174
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p099

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

LESS THAN 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

LESS THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Drosera tracyi