Tall Sundew: Flower, Above

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Betalains (Caryophyllales)

Family:

Sundew (Droseraceae)

Species:

Tall Sundew (Drosera auriculata)

This Photo:

Flower, Above

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Adelaide Hills, Flinders Ranges, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere
These have pink flowers.
A very strange, dainty, carnivorous plant.
When the plant dies, it goes completely black, as though poisoned.
What we used to call the "mouths" are actually it's leaves!

This species is classed as

VU (Vulnerable)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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