Uhhhh:
On the other hand, this is a very naughty plant. It doesn't look so much like
Drosera capillaris anymore, does it? It has a rank, hybridy look to it. I think some people call this
Drosera intermedia, and I do not deny that it looks like Drosera intermedia specimens I have
seen in Rhode Island. However, Beth and I harvested perhaps a dozen stipules from several plants and spent a few
minutes looking at them using my 20× hand-lens (that my sweetie Beth gave me for my birthday). They all
looked just like Drosera capillaris stipules: a big central stipule lobe
with a bifid or trifid tip, and two flanking linear stipule lobes. Is this a big, lanky long-leafed
Drosera capillaris as seen in Florida, or is this Drosera intermedia with "wrong"stipules,
or is this a hybrid between the two species? Gahhhh!
By the way, we never saw any plants that I felt comfortable calling D. intermedia. Just these
weird things.
