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Copyright: Ungureanu Liviu (Apashu)
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| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2009-05-11 |
| Categories: Water Plants |
| Exposure: f/8, 1/100 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2009-07-01 3:25 |
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Also known as Drosera longifolia
Description: An insectivorous, short-lived herbaceous perennial of open bogs.
Leaves a basal rosette. Blades round, depressed, and lying flat on ground; ¼"-½" long and as wide or wider. Upper surface of blades covered with reddish, glandular hairs tipped with a sticky, glutinous secretion resembling a dewdrop that traps insects, hence its name. Petioles ¾"-2" long and covered with sticky hairs.
Roots usually shallow (less than 2½"), consisting of a taproot, functional for less than a year, replaced by mostly horizontal adventitious roots with a few root hairs.
Flower structure a one-sided raceme, with 2-15 flowers on a 2"-10" long stalk . There may be one to seven racemes per rosette.flowers which only open in the sunshine. Flower-stems erect, slender, 2 to 6" high, at first coiled inward bearing a simple raceme, which straightens out as flowers expand; these are very small and white, appearing in summer and early autumn.
Sepals 5, 4mm-5mm
Petals 5, white to pink; longer than sepals
Stamens 5; shorter than petals
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