Drosera x "Hybrida"

One of the first natural Drosera hybrids ever documented: Macfarlane described it in 1898 from the New Jersey Pine Barrens, recognising it as intermediate between its parents D. filiformis and D. intermedia. It was declared extinct in the wild in 2011, then found alive at six new sites in 2017. Most plants are sterile, but at very low frequency a chromosome doubling event can produce fertile offspring, making this hybrid a potential species in the making.

Found at the edges of freshwater ponds and in seepage bogs in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey. Both parents grow side by side in these open, wet, acidic habitats, which is how the cross happens naturally. Only a handful of wild sites are known, and several have been destroyed by development.

A compact version of the thread-leaved D. filiformis: erect, filiform leaves up to 9 cm long, but with the rounded leaf tips of D. intermedia. It forms dense hibernacula in winter. Flowers are white to pale pink, in May and June. Being mostly sterile, it propagates by division and detached hibernacula.