Perennial Carnivore
White leaves are covered with sticky hairs, will move like tentacles to capture and digest insects. Thrives in hot and humid conditions, but can be grown outside.
Perennial Carnivore
White leaves are covered with sticky hairs, will move like tentacles to capture and digest insects. Thrives in hot and humid conditions, but can be grown outside.
Perennial Carnivore
Leaves turn bright red with enough light, are covered with sticky hairs, will move like tentacles to capture and digest insects. Thrives in hot and humid conditions, but can be grown outside.
Perennial Carnivore
Rare, with tiny spoon-shaped leaves covered with sticky hairs which capture and digest insects. Can go dormant in hot dry summer.
Perennial Carnivore
Rare, with tiny spoon-shaped leaves covered with sticky hairs which capture and digest insects. Can go dormant in hot dry summer.
Perennial Carnivore
Leaf tips curl around insects. Prefers direct sunlight, but not too hot. Clip dead leaves to stimulate more growth. Will grow under fluorescent lights. Doesn’t require winter dormant period.
Perennial Carnivore
Tiny spoon-shaped leaves forming small rosettes are covered with long sticky hairs which capture and digest insects. Prefers moderate temperatures. If grown outside can experience a summer dormancy.
Pygmy Sundew with tiny sticky red rosettes, large orange flowers.
Perennial Carnivore
Round spoon-shaped leaves are covered with sticky hairs which capture and digest insects. Thrives in hot and humid conditions, but can be grown outside.
D. caespitosa “Frank Reinelt”
6″ tall clusters to 12″ wide. Silver finger-like leaves with red tips in full sun. Afternoon shade inland.
Large rosettes, thin leaves, stemless, fast-growing.
D. greenei “White Sprite”
White leaves, clumping rosettes, variable with longer leaves. Sometimes sold as D. gnoma.
Small 6″ rosettes will form larger clumps over time. Pale white flowers.
Tight clusters of green rosettes with slightly red tips in full sun. White flowers on long bloom stalks.
“This species is entirely restricted to the eleven cinder cones of the San Quintin Volcanic Field, growing nowhere else in the world.” Red flowers on chalky white stalks. 6-12″ chalky white rosettes.
Solitary, stemless 8″ rosettes, powdery white in full sun.
18″ rosettes on single stems with chalky leaves. Looks best if dry through the summer months – avoid overhead watering.
Dense clusters of large 12″ rosettes with oblong leaves that vary from green to chalky white with red tips. Bright yellow flowers in Spring and Summer.
Highly variable, with a wide distribution throughout California – from the coasts to the mountains. Fragrant flowers of yellow to pink-red attract hummingbirds.
Rare and small, to 6″; white flowers
Long green cylindrical leaves grow to 8″ tall from a central base forming dense 12″ rosettes. White flowers in Spring and Summer.
Small to medium rosettes, variable color – green with red edges to chalky white.
Tightly clumping tiny white rosettes. Sometimes sold as D. “White Sprite”.
(D. greenei)
Small clumping rosettes up to 4″d., red-tipped
Dense colorful 6″ rosettes with low stems, pack in tight. White flowers in Spring. Hybrid from Santa Barbara native.
Dense colorful 5″ rosettes, low stems
Rosettes 12-16″; pale yellow/pink flowers
Clumping rosettes up to 12″d., can be found along the California coast as far north as coastal as far north as Año Nuevo.
Found on rocky slopes and cliffs along the Central and Southern California coasts. Pale to bright green leaves, chalky white in full sun with red edges. Medium rosettes with flowers of yellow to pink-red in Spring and Summer.
12″+ rosettes, generally solitary. Lots of Sun, little water in summer.
Endangered, grows in serpentine soils.