Drosera porrecta Leafy Sundew Endemic
This photo was taken a year after a major burn at the Badgingarra National Park. The ground was mostly sand and ash and this plant was one of the few newly grown species I could see. The plants with lignotubers has sent up flowering shoots and the likes of Verticordia grandis had several shoots about 1 foot tall covered in blooms with a burnt stick emerging from the centre as the only remnant of a much larger plant.
Most of the digital photos of this species on the internet show the typical Drosera leaf stucture with many leaflets per stem - hence the common name, but this particular plant had none at this stage in its development.
Drosera porrecta is found in the Dandaragon local Government area and both further north up to Geraldton and south almost to Bunbury but no records stray far from the coastal plain.
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Badgingarra National Park, Western Australia 30th August 2012
Added on December 23rd 2025