Drosera zigzagia

Dormant plants, you will receive tubers

Named for its stem, which zigzags. At each bend sits a single tiny leaf, crescent-shaped and barely 2 mm across. The overall effect is a slender, angular stalk that looks like it can't decide which direction to grow, with a cluster of yellow flowers at the top. Allen Lowrie described it in 1999 from populations around salt lakes in inland Western Australia.

Grows in salt-free loamy sand just above the flood line of lakes and salt pans in the wheatbelt region, surrounded by semi-arid shrubland. Also found in gnammas, natural depressions in granite rock that hold moisture in otherwise dry country. Known from scattered sites across a wide area, from Lake Altham near Pingrup to Lake Moore and Lake Seabrook further north.

A tuberous sundew, 5 to 12 cm tall. It grows during the cool, wet Western Australian winter and retreats underground to a small white tuber when summer heat arrives. Flowers are yellow, four to nine per stalk, appearing in August and September. Its closest relative is D. moorei, which scrambles and climbs instead of standing erect, and carries its leaves in groups of three.