Drosera anglica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Droseraceae |
Genus: | Drosera |
Subgenus: | Drosera subg. Drosera |
Section: | Drosera sect. Drosera |
Species: | D. anglica
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Binomial name | |
Drosera anglica | |
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Drosera anglica, commonly known as the English sundew[3] or great sundew,[4] is a carnivorous flowering plant species belonging to the sundew family Droseraceae. It is a temperate species with a circumboreal range,[2] 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.[5]