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The Dwarf or Small Sundew, Drosera brevifolia, also known as the Red Sundew, is a carnivorous plant of the family Droseraceae and is the smallest sundew species in the United States. This species differs considerably from the Pink Sundew, Drosera capillaries, by its wedge shaped leaves, and distinctly deeper red to reddish purple color, noticable when side by side with D. capillaris.
The Dwarf Sundew is usually a small plant, typically no more than 3 centimeters across, though some are known to grow up to 5 cm in the open sandy woods in west Louisiana, with flower spikes up to 15 cm. It is often found growing in areas drier than what most carnivorous plants prefer, where it often will set seed and die when the dry hot summer arrives and return as seedlings in late fall or winter.
The range of the Dwarf Sundew is from east Texas to Florida and north to Virginia. Flowers can be large compared to the rosette and can be pink or white and come in the spring.
Most of the plants die off in the dry summer after setting seed. New seedlings return in the fall with cooler, damper weather.
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