One of the three British species of carnivorous sundew plants or Drosera can be found here, and it is a known breeding site for the rare Merlin and Red Kite birds.
The nature reserve is the home of several special plants like Common Cottongrass and Drosera and endangered animals like the viviparous lizard, Grass Snake, Short-eared Owl and European Nightjar can be found in this reserve.
the sundew "petiolaris complex", a group in the Drosera genus of tropical Australian species which live in constantly warm but irregularly wet conditions
These bogs support specialised plant species such as insectivorous sundews.
Drosera | Drosera rotundifolia | Drosera spatulata | Drosera petiolaris | Drosera peltata | ''Drosera indica'' with trapped insects, Kumbla | ''Drosera capensis | Drosera bicolor |
He is recognised for his expertise on the genera Drosera and Stylidium.
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As time went on, his hobby turned to a profession and Lowrie discovered and described numerous species (especially Drosera, Byblis and Utricularia), partly together with Neville Marchant.
Drosera darwinensis grows in clayey sand from Palmerston to Berry Springs south of Darwin and east to Humpty Doo.
Drosera meristocaulis is known only from a few valleys on the northern side of Pico da Neblina.
Drosera quartzicola is a species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera and is endemic to the Serra do Cipó in central Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil.
The names cephalotusin, dionaeasin and droserasin have been proposed for similar aspartic endopeptidases originating from the carnivorous plant genera Cephalotus, Dionaea and Drosera, respectively.
Carlquist studied wood anatomy of the Gnetophyta and was an author of many plant taxa, including species of the carnivorous plant genus Drosera, the Western Australian genus Stylidium, and the odd Australian genus Alexgeorgea whose female flowers are almost entirely underground.
A few of many possible examples include species of Rhexia, Parnassia, Lobelia, many species of wild orchids (e.g. Calopogon and Spiranthes), and carnivorous plants such as Sarracenia and Drosera.