Drosera spatulataLabill.

Rosy Sundew

WFO wfo-0000946185 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Drosera spatulata, photographed by Liam southwell
fig. a Liam southwell, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202922662
Drosera spatulata, photographed by Gary Williams
fig. b Gary Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203729190
Drosera spatulata, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. c Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196493545
Drosera spatulata, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. d Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196491177
Drosera spatulata, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. e Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196491762
Drosera spatulata, photographed by Tim
fig. f Tim, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201864478
Drosera spatulata, photographed by 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)
fig. g 胡正恆(Jackson Hu), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199933868
Drosera spatulata, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. h Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192137693

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 526 observations

Peak flowering in Dec, from 526 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Drosera burmanni DC.
  • Drosera loureiroi Hook. & Arn.
  • Drosera lovellae F.M.Bailey
  • Drosera minutula Colenso
  • Drosera propinqua R.Cunn.
  • Drosera spatulata subsp. tokaiensis Komiya & C.Shibata
  • Drosera spatulata var. bakoensis A.Fleischm. & Chi.C.Lee
  • Drosera spatulata var. gympiensis R.P.Gibson & I.Snyder
  • Drosera spatulata var. loureiroi (Hook. & Arn.) Y.Z.Ruan
  • Drosera spatulata var. spatulata
  • Drosera triflora Colenso

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.