NameThatPlant.net: Drosera filiformis var. filiformis

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Drosera filiformis var. filiformis FAMILY Droseraceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Threadleaf Sundew at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Drosera filiformis FAMILY Droseraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Drosera filiformis var. filiformis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)

Drosera filiformis

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Drosera filiformis

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 092-01-001:

Drosera filiformis FAMILY Droseraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Drosera filiformis var. filiformis

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Drosera tracyi

COMMON NAME:
Northern Threadleaf Sundew

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image of Drosera filiformis var. filiformis, Northern 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.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Drosera filiformis var. filiformis FAMILY Droseraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Drosera filiformis FAMILY Droseraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Drosera filiformis var. filiformis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Drosera filiformis

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Drosera filiformis

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 092-01-001:
Drosera filiformis FAMILY Droseraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Drosera filiformis var. filiformis

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Drosera tracyi

486

Forb
Annual/Perennial

Habitat: Margins of natural pools in pinelands, especially clay-based Carolina bays, wet pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple

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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall?
Capsule

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