A new taxon:
Ah, here is something new. This was growing on a small ledge in the road cut. It looks like the tuberous
Drosera auriculata I showed you earlier in this
report. However, unlike in those plants, the sepals are pubescent and are not glabrous. That means that these plants are
Drosera peltata (or
Drosera peltata subsp. peltata if you consider them the same species).
These plants are clearly finishing up the season.
Something else I noticed is that most of the
Drosera peltata plants I saw had horizontal stems near the lower part of the plant, and then at
some point the stems took a 90° turn and became ascending. I think this is just because of disturbance the plants
received at some point in their growth. These are erect plants, and are not scramblers.
