Thread-leaved sundew
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Caryophyllales Family: Droseraceae Genus: Drosera Species: D. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its Caryophyllales is an order of Flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations Amaranths Ice plants and most Droseraceae is the Botanical name for a family of Flowering plants. The Sundews ( Drosera) comprise one of the largest genera of Carnivorous plants with over 170 Species. filiformis
Binomial name
Drosera filiformis Raf. (1808)
Synonyms
Drosera filiformis auct. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe ( October 22 1783 - September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century In Scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different Scientific names used for a single Taxon. non Raf. : R. Hamet (1907) [=D. filiformis/D. filiformis var. tracyi/D. filiformis × D. intermedia] Drosera leionema Raf. Drosera intermedia, commonly known as the oblong-leaved sundew or spoonleaf sundew, is an insectivorous plant species belonging to the (1836) Drosera tenuifolia Willd. (1809) Drosera tracyi Macf. ex Diels (1906) Filicirna filiformis (Raf. ) Raf. (1836) Filicirna leionema (Raf. ) Raf. (1836) Filicirna tenuifolia (Willd. ) Raf. (1836)

Part of leaf of wild Drosera filiformis var. tracyi, with captured insect

Drosera filiformis, commonly known as the Thread-leaved sundew,^[1] is a small, insectivorous, rosette forming species of perennial herb. Carnivorous plants (sometimes called insectivorous plants) are Plants that derive some or most of their Nutrients (but not Energy) from trapping In botany a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves with all the leaves at a single height A perennial plant or perennial ( Latin per, "through" annus, "year" is a Plant that lives for more than A herbaceous plant (or in botanical use a Herb) is a Plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of A species of sundew, it is unusual within its genus in that the long, erect, filiform (thread-like)^[1] leaves of this plant unroll in spirals - an arrangement similar to the circinate vernation seen in Ferns. The Sundews ( Drosera) comprise one of the largest genera of Carnivorous plants with over 170 Species. Vernation (from vernal, since that is when leaves "spring forth" in Temperate regions is the formation of new leaves or fronds A fern is any one of a group of about 20000 Species of Plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta

Distribution and habitat

D. filiformis occurs naturally in both Canada and the United States; it's natural range extends down the eastern seaboard of North America from south western Nova Scotia^[1] in the north down through New England to Florida and Louisiana in the south. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Nova Scotia (ˌnəʊvəˈskəʊʃə ( Latin for New Scotland; Alba Nuadh Nouvelle-Écosse is a Canadian province located on Canada 's History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America

Infraspecific taxa

• Drosera filiformis f. tracyi (Macf. ex Diels) Macf. (1914)
• Drosera filiformis var. tracyi (Macf. ex Diels) Diels (1906)
• Drosera filiformis var. typica Winne (1944) nom. illeg.

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