Sundew / Snotblom

Description:

Drosera hilaris are strong and unbranched growing, herbaceous plants . They grow upright, partly from older, trailing stems that are densely covered with the old, withered, drooping foliage. The root system is poorly developed. The leaves are arranged in rosettes to imbricate, the petiole is hairy and merges into the leaf blade, stipules absent or reduced to a few below fused bristles that are obsolete and hidden in the dense, rust-colored felt. The leaf blade is narrow reverse-lanceolate, up to 7 inches long and 9 mm wide, lies exclusively with club-shaped tentacles and the bottom is very hairy. The inflorescence axis arises from the leaf axils, erect, leafless and up to 25 centimeters long, at its end, it carries six to twelve large flowers , which on short flower stalks are. The sepals are fused, the individual lobes are up to 6 millimeters long and narrow ovate. The petals are broad reverse-egg-shaped, simple or notched, magenta to reddish-purple and have a length of up to 1.5 centimeters. The short stamens are flattened, the stamens widened upwards. The pens are shared, long and spread out, the scars are either very short or split and slightly swollen. The capsule fruits are ovoid, seeds filiform, winged at the top and 0.5 millimeters long. (From Wikipedia)