Drosera intermediaHayne

spoonleaf sundew

WFO wfo-0000945976 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Drosera intermedia, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205672193
Drosera intermedia, photographed by Jara de Hoog
fig. b Jara de Hoog, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205621228
Drosera intermedia, photographed by Jason K.
fig. c Jason K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205896397
Drosera intermedia, photographed by Jason K.
fig. d Jason K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205896167
Drosera intermedia, photographed by José Luis Camaño
fig. e José Luis Camaño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205702268
Drosera intermedia, photographed by Kathleen Houlahan Chayer
fig. f Kathleen Houlahan Chayer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204618331
Drosera intermedia, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. g Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204508323
Drosera intermedia, photographed by Jason K.
fig. h Jason K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203883190

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 252 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 252 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Drosera americana Willd.
  • Drosera capillaris var. brasiliensis Diels
  • Drosera foliosa Elliott
  • Drosera intermedia f. corymbosa (DC.) Fernald
  • Drosera intermedia f. elatior Planch.
  • Drosera intermedia f. intermedia
  • Drosera intermedia f. natans Heuser
  • Drosera intermedia f. subcaulescens Melville
  • Drosera intermedia var. americana (Willd.) DC.
  • Drosera intermedia var. corymbosa DC.
  • Drosera intermedia var. elatior Planch.
  • Drosera intermedia var. erecta Baguet
  • Drosera intermedia var. gracilis Planch.
  • Drosera intermedia var. tenuis Eichler
  • Drosera longifolia var. perennis Gray
  • Drosera media E.H.L.Krause
  • Rorella intermedia (Hayne) Nieuwl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.