Drosera whittakeri

Drosera whittakeri, called the scented sundew or Whittaker's sundew, is a sundew of the genus Drosera, that is native to South Australia and Victoria. The plants form rosettes 4 to 8 cm across with broadly spathulate leaves 10 to 15 mm long and 9 to 13 mm wide, which may be green, orange-yellow or red. Up to 20 white flowers are produced by a plant, with several open at once; the main flowering period in its native range is May to November, though flowers may appear throughout the year. Jules Émile Planchon formally described the species in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles in 1848, and it was named for the Derbyshire botanist Joseph Whittaker, who collected about 300 plant specimens around Adelaide, the southern Mount Lofty Ranges and Encounter Bay in 1839 and 1840. Some authorities recognise two subspecies, and in 2008 Allen Lowrie and John Conran raised one of them to species rank as Drosera aberrans.