Carnivorous Plant Encyclopedia

A natural hybrid of the round-leaved sundew and the great sundew, with spoon-shaped leaves intermediate between its parents. It is sterile and must be propagated by division or leaf cuttings. It occurs in Japan in bogs where both parents grow together.

An Australian sundew preferring partial shade with long lance-shaped leaves.

A South African rosette sundew with beautiful symmetrical form, a top beginner species.

A sundew with uniquely forked leaves, large and impressive, very hardy.

A sundew that captures insects very quickly, curling leaves in seconds. Sometimes annual.

A hardy sundew from South Africa with beautiful glistening sticky leaves, perfect for beginners.

A sundew that lays large kidney-shaped leaves flat on the ground, looking rather like a Venus flytrap. Native to tropical northern Australia, it rests as a bud at soil level in the dry season. Unusually for a carnivorous plant it grows on alkaline, calcareous soil.

A North American sundew with thread-like long leaves, stunningly beautiful when glistening with dew.

A tall sundew native to Japan as well, but wild populations have drastically declined.

A stem-forming sundew that raises a distinct stem with alternate, spoon-shaped sticky leaves. The lower stem is clothed in dead old leaves and the plant reaches about 25 cm. A robust African species with pink flowers.

Discovered in 2015, one of the world's largest sundews, endemic to one mountain in Brazil.

A small rosette-forming sundew with wedge- to spoon-shaped leaves about 2 cm long lying at ground level. Wiry flower stalks reach about 25 cm. Native to swamps of South Africa and Madagascar.

A 'woolly' sundew of the petiolaris group with broad petioles densely covered in long silvery hairs. Rosettes are usually about 8 cm across. It bears pink to white flowers and grows around the Ord River in northern Australia.

A large tropical sundew with tall stems from northern Australia, wild and impressive.

A tropical sundew from northern Australia with rosette trap leaves on long petioles.

A unique sundew producing plantlets on flower stalks, spreading in an interesting creeping manner.

Called King Sundew, the largest sundew with leaves exceeding 60cm.

A highland sundew from South America whose type specimen was collected on Mount Roraima in the Guiana Highlands. It carries its sticky leaves on a short stem clothed in many dead leaves, and a glandular flower stalk bears about ten flowers.

A round-leaved sundew native to Japan, growing in wetlands. Goes dormant in winter.

An Australian sundew propagating by gemmae with scorpion-tail-like flower stalks.

A sundew from the Cape region of South Africa forming rosettes 5-10 cm across of spoon- to heart-shaped leaves, with pink flowers. Named after the British carnivorous-plant author Adrian Slack, it holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

A spatula-leaved sundew native to Japan, forming cute rosettes.

A Japanese endemic sundew discovered in the Tokai region with intermediate leaf shape.

A sundew from south-western Western Australia forming rosettes 4-6 cm across of spoon-shaped leaves. Stalks 30-40 cm tall carry large deep-pink flowers with fused styles, a feature that places it alone in its own section.