Drosera pygmaea

Drosera pygmaea is a small carnivorous plant, a sundew, that grows as a rosette-forming biennial or annual herb. It is native to Australia and New Zealand. The plant is tiny: its rosette measures only about 8 to 18 millimetres across, and the species name pygmaea, which translates from Latin as dwarf, refers to that very small size. Small, pale flowers are produced at the ends of stems about one to three inches long. Among the pygmy sundews it is perhaps the best known. In New Zealand it is found across a wide range of habitats, from the coast up to subalpine ground, but it needs open ground because taller plants easily outcompete it.