Drosera anglica Huds.
English Sundew, Great Sundew, Langblättriger Sonnentau (DE); Great Sundew (EN), mikinalo
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Summary
Drosera anglica, commonly known as the English sundew or great sundew, is a carnivorous flowering plant species belonging to the sundew family Droseraceae. It is a temperate species with a circumboreal range, although it does occur as far south as Japan, southern Europe, and the island of Kauai in Hawaii, where it grows as a tropical sundew. It is thought to originate from an amphidiploid hybrid of D. rotundifolia and D. linearis, meaning that a sterile hybrid between these two species doubled its chromosomes to produce fertile progeny which stabilized into the current D. anglica.
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About the genus · Drosera
Drosera, which is commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of the soil in which the plants grow. More on Wikipedia ›
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At a glance
Also known as Adenopa anglica (Huds.) Raf.; Drosera anglica f. pusilla Kihlm.; Drosera anglica f. pusilla Kihlm. ex Diels; Drosera anglica subsp. minor (Abromeit) Hegi; Drosera anglica subsp. pusilla (Kihlm.) Hjelt and 24 more.
Cultivation
Grouped as a carnivorous plant by the genus Drosera, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.
Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (June to January in the northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (671 mm of 884 mm) takes 8 months, June to January. Mean temperature moves 18.8 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to July.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 884 mm a year, wettest July at 101 mm, driest April at 48 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
884 mm a year at the habitat, 671 mm of it June to January. Wettest month July at 101 mm, driest April at 48 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 660 mm to 2288 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 1 to 34 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 1 to 34 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 0, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor -18.5 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -18.5 °C, the absolute minimum -32.2 °C, about 141 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 25.0 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -6.6 °C in January (across the envelope cells -13.8 °C to 2.2 °C), warmest day 18.6 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -18.5 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 70% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | -1 / -8–6 | -1 / -8–6 | 3 / -3–8 | 7 / 2–11 | 12 / 8–16 | 16 / 12–19 | 19 / 14–22 | 17 / 14–21 | 13 / 9–17 | 8 / 3–13 | 3 / -3–9 | -0 / -7–6 |
| Night °C | -7 / -14–2 | -7 / -13–2 | -4 / -9–3 | 0 / -5–5 | 5 / 1–8 | 9 / 6–11 | 12 / 9–14 | 11 / 8–14 | 8 / 4–11 | 4 / -1–8 | -1 / -8–5 | -5 / -12–3 |
| Rain mm | 65 / 44–266 | 49 / 34–201 | 53 / 36–202 | 48 / 34–132 | 63 / 44–131 | 85 / 65–138 | 101 / 72–157 | 100 / 74–179 | 82 / 61–211 | 88 / 62–255 | 81 / 57–248 | 69 / 49–243 |
| DLI | 2 / 0–8 | 7 / 4–13 | 14 / 11–21 | 24 / 22–30 | 33 / 30–35 | 34 / 30–37 | 31 / 27–36 | 24 / 20–30 | 15 / 12–22 | 8 / 4–14 | 3 / 1–8 | 1 / 0–6 |
| RH % | 69 / 63–74 | 67 / 62–73 | 64 / 61–67 | 60 / 59–65 | 58 / 56–64 | 59 / 56–65 | 60 / 59–67 | 62 / 61–67 | 64 / 62–68 | 67 / 63–71 | 70 / 64–73 | 70 / 64–74 |
Each figure is the median across the 1697 grid cells holding the 1811 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 608:3819 (59.575, 10.975). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -32.2 °C, 1st-percentile night -18.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 25.0 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 1697 distinct grid cells holding the 1811 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 608:3819 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 59.50_11.250, lapse-corrected +49 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 177 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Ryan Hodnett, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); no rights reserved · CC0 (7).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Drosera anglica, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
Polemonium caeruleum Blue Jacob's Ladder
Crassula aquatica Aquatic pygmyweed
Trollius europaeus Alpine Globeflower
Ribes nigrum Black Currant
Allium schoenoprasum Chives
Ribes alpinum Alpine currantOther Drosera 203 in the reference
Drosera aberrans scented sundew
Drosera acaulis Droseraceae
Drosera adelae Droseraceae
Drosera affinis Slender-leaved Sundew
Drosera alba White Sundew
Drosera albonotata Droseraceae
Drosera aliciae Alice Sundew Drosera allantostigma Pygmy Sundew
Drosera amazonica Droseraceae
Drosera andersoniana Droseraceae
Drosera androsacea Droseraceae
Drosera aquatica Droseraceae all 204 ›History & registers
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