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Drosera uniflora
Drosera uniflora is a tiny carnivorous sundew from Patagonia and the Falklands that bears a single white flower. It grows in wet, nutrient-poor bogs and needs bright sun and wet roots to thrive.
Drosera uniflora is a species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera that is native to Patagonia and the Falkland Islands. It is a tiny sundew with a solitary white flower as its name would suggest. Stalked glands on its leaves, which secrete sticky mucilage at the tips, are used to capture and hold insect prey, from which the plant derives the nutrients it cannot obtain in sufficient quantity from the soil. It was formally described in 1809 by botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow.
As is common with sundews, D. uniflora lives in nutrient poor soil (soil used in the broadest sense—anything that encourages growth), and relies on insects to supplement its nutritional requirements. But unlike most of the genus, it prefers to have its roots in water, and can be found in bogs, moorlands, or otherwise watery areas which lack in organic nitrogen and phosphorus, nutrients it receives from insects it captures and digests. In Chile it grows in the mountains near the ocean between the altitudes of 500 and 2,000 meters; typically on the north facing slopes or level areas as it likes a lot of sun. In addition to the Falkland Islands, it has been found in Tierra del Fuego and the northern edge of the Patagonia Forest. Although Barthlott et al. have stated that it has been found growing on Clarence Island off the coast of Antarctica, it would seem more likely that this was mistaken for Clarence Island, Chile, as Antarctica is only known to support two species of flowering plants, neither of which is D. uniflora.
Scented Sundew · Drosera acaulis · Drosera adelae · Peninsula Sundew · Slender Leaved Sundew · White Sundew · Drosera albonotata · Australian sundew · Pygmy Sundew · Drosera amazonica · Drosera andersoniana · Drosera androsacea
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Drosera uniflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
