Drosera cistiflora

Drosera cistiflora, commonly the poppy-flowered sundew or the rose-flowered sundew, has 14 Afrikaans colloquial names listed in the SANBI Red List website, including allesdou (all dew), doublom (dew flower), snotrosie (little snot rose), sonnedou (sun dew) and vliegvangertjie (little fly catcher). The plant is a slender, glandular, insectivorous perennial, reaching 40 cm in height. 

There is sometimes a rosette of basal leaves around the stem at ground level, but not always. The leaves are scattered leaves up each stem, alternate, narrow, and curving upwards. The reddish, fluffy and sticky leaf covering serves as an insect trapping device. Insects are a supplementary food to the plant that needs more nutrition than the soil can provide. 

The species distribution is mainly in the Western Cape, the western coastal part of the Eastern Cape and marginally into the southwest of the Northern Cape.

The habitat is moist places on sand flats, seeps and slopes, often in partly shaded spots. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Manning, 2009; Moriarty, 1997; iNaturalist; KZN Wildlife Rhino Club News Oct 2010; http://redlist.sanbi.org).