Drosera tracyi
threadleaf sundew, Tracy's sundew
Droseraceae
Plant Specifics
Form:
Size:
Life Span:
short-lived perennial
Flower Color:
Fruit Color:
Phenology:
Noted For:
Landscaping
Recommended Uses:
Considerations:
Light:
Moisture Tolerance:
Usually moist, occasional inundation ---- to ---- Usually moist, occasional inundation
Salt Water Flooding Tolerance:
Unknown
Salt Spray/Salty Soil Tolerance:
Unknown
Soil or Other Substrate:
Suitable to Grow In:
Ecology
Wildlife:
The plant both attracts insects for pollination and traps and digests insects. Though this species has not been well studied, other species are known to have mechanisms for keeping these separate -- eating your pollinator is not a good plant survival strategy. On study suggests that the primary separation mechanism is raising the flowers well above the sticky stems so that the pollinators don't get trapped.
Sweat bees ( Agapostemon ), bumble bees ( Bombus ), syrphid flies, and meloid beetles have been listed as pollinators.
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