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With regard to sundews in Western Australia it is redundant to call many species rare as there are so many locally endemic species. What is rare about these photos is capturing flowering plants of D monticola which are quite underrepresented in literature and on the net.
Droera monticola is restricted to several high elevation peaks in the Stirling Range north of Esperance in WA. For this hike all flowers were closed during the ascent, but a few began to open with enough sun during the descent of the mountain - allowing for these few photos.
This is a common insectivorous plant growing in fens and bogs. Its hollow pitcher-like leaves are filled with water. Any insects which enter the leaves are unable to escape because of the slippery surface and downward-pointing hairs. The plant then digests and absorbs the nutrients from the insects.
Photographed in the Oliphant Fen, in the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
Sundews are small delicate plants. The long narrow leaves of this species are covered with sticky tentacles which attract insects. Any insect landing on it gets stuck. The leaf then curls and closes around the insect and digests the insect. They are found only in bogs. This one was in Petrel Point Bog in the Bruce Peninsula.
Napeague, Long Island, NY
A sundew of the coastal plain found in disjunct populations from southeastern Massachusetts to Florida. It's a species of special concern in CT, rare in NY, and historical in Rhode Island, as listed in the USDA list of Threatened and Endangered Plants. In Canada, it grows in only 5 bogs in Nova Scotia. Our population grows in a cranberry bog. "Dew-thread" or thread-leaved sundew, is found in the eastern two-thirds of Long Island.
In this setting Drosera alba is quite spectacular and easy to detect on wet margins of rock outcrops. Virtually geophytic at this location, this sundew inhabits the interface between wet marsh seepages rich with montane orchids and xeric desert. Within 10-15 meters of these plants are the succulents Crassula spp. and Conophytum minusculum at the margins of the succulent Karoo.
Sundews are small delicate plants. The long narrow leaves of this species are covered with sticky tentacles which attract insects. Any insect landing on it gets stuck. The leaf then curls and closes around the insect and digests the insect. They are found only in bogs. This one was in Petrel Point Bog in the Bruce Peninsula.
Napeague, Long Island, NY
A sundew of the coastal plain found in disjunct populations from southeastern Massachusetts to Florida. It's a species of special concern in CT, rare in NY, and historical in Rhode Island, as listed in the USDA list of Threatened and Endangered Plants. In Canada, it grows in only 5 bogs in Nova Scotia. Our population grows in a cranberry bog. "Dew-thread" or thread-leaved sundew, is found in the eastern two-thirds of Long Island.