All pygmy sundews by soil moisture (text list)
  • Drosera barbigera — dry soil. White silica sand and laterite gravel on the slopes and tops of laterite hills. Moist only while winter rain lasts; dries out in summer. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera bindoon — dry soil. Heavy, rough laterite gravel on hillsides and hilltops.
  • Drosera citrina — dry soil. Well-drained deep yellow sand in open heath or under Banksia woodland. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera coomallo — dry soil. Laterite pebbles over laterite sheet rock on the upper slopes of hills.
  • Drosera eneabba — dry soil. Deep, well-drained white silica sand in low open heath, often under sparse shrubs. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera gibsonii — dry soil. Granite and laterite scree on the lower slopes of the Stirling Range, laterite on the plains between peaks, and clayey sand on watershed slopes.
  • Drosera minutiflora — dry soil. Deep white silica sand between low shrubs in heath.
  • Drosera nivea — dry soil. Deep pale yellow to beige sand on sandplain heath. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera pedicellaris — dry soil. Deep beige to white sand between low shrubs in heath.
  • Drosera pycnoblasta — dry soil. Deep white sand, clayey white sand over laterite gravel, or yellow sand, in low heath and mallee. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera rechingeri — dry soil. Deep white or yellow sand in open heath.
  • Drosera sargentii — dry soil. Deep, fine white silica sand in low coastal heath and on consolidated dunes.
  • Drosera scorpioides — dry soil. Pebbly laterite outcrops with a little silica sand, among heath and open woodland. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera silvicola — dry soil. Laterite rubble among leaf litter on the slopes and summits of high hills in jarrah forest. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera trichocaulis — dry soil. Deep white sand, or laterite and sand, under low heath and open woodland.
  • Drosera albonotata — drained soil. Sandy clay-loam on gravelly slopes, ridges and low rises in Wandoo woodland.
  • Drosera androsacea — drained soil. Exposed, poor, often compacted or clayey soils in Wheatbelt mallee and low heath: stony white sandy loam or loam with laterite gravel. These soils bake hard in summer. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera callistos — drained soil. Heavy laterite-covered sand, and pockets of pure sand surrounded by laterite. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera dichrosepala — drained soil. Well-drained shallow sand over laterite with laterite pebbles, among low scrub.
  • Drosera grievei — drained soil. Beige sandy clay with a little laterite, in low open heath.
  • Drosera hyperostigma — drained soil. Well-drained laterite mixed with silica sand in open, light forest.
  • Drosera lasiantha — drained soil. Loamy laterite scree on high slopes in low jarrah forest, and skeletal soil on granite.
  • Drosera leioblastus — drained soil. Silica sand with leaf-litter humus and laterite pebbles, under low heath. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera miniata — drained soil. Laterite, clay and silty clay on slopes, often exposed and near granite outcrops; also loam washed onto granite aprons. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera oreopodion — drained soil. Sandy clay mixed with laterite pebbles in low heath.
  • Drosera platystigma — drained soil. Clayey sand, laterite or loam in open heath and jarrah-forest clearings.
  • Drosera sewelliae — drained soil. Laterite with silica sand in open forest, and laterite over sheet rock.
  • Drosera spilos — drained soil. Loam strewn with laterite pebbles, or clayey sand, often near granite outcrops.
  • Drosera stelliflora — drained soil. Laterite soils, sometimes with a little silica sand.
  • Drosera verrucata — drained soil. Clayey sand between low shrubs in heath and scrub; also roadside gravel.
  • Drosera walyunga — drained soil. Sandy white clay with a thin laterite gravel layer, around winter-wet springs and seeps. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera allantostigma — moist soil. Loam, silica sand or peaty sand on the edges of winter-wet depressions.
  • Drosera australis — moist soil. Wet spots in coastal heath, such as the edges of seasonally flooded swampy hollows; also sandy soil over laterite nearby.
  • Drosera closterostigma — moist soil. Deep white sand greyed by humus, often in winter-wet depressions and swampy heath. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera echinoblastus — moist soil. Deep white sand or beige clayey sand beside winter-wet streams, depressions and seeps.
  • Drosera helodes — moist soil. Grey sand in winter-wet depressions, and black humic sand on seasonal swamp edges.
  • Drosera leucoblasta — moist soil. Clayey sand, clay and laterite between low shrubs in heath; soils often carry organic matter and peat. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera leucostigma — moist soil. Sandy soils on the edges of winter-wet depressions.
  • Drosera mannii — moist soil. Loam in jarrah forest, peaty sand on winter-wet seeps, and granite-outcrop aprons.
  • Drosera micrantha — moist soil. White silica sand on the higher edges of swamps, and deep sand pockets in the Darling Range.
  • Drosera nitidula — moist soil. Clayey sand in and around winter-wet depressions and swamps.
  • Drosera omissa — moist soil. Deep white sand around winter-wet depressions; occasionally laterite.
  • Drosera patens — moist soil. Sandy edges of swamps, lakes and winter-wet depressions.
  • Drosera × badgingarra — moist soil. Clay-rich sand on the edges of wet depressions.
  • Drosera × carbarup — moist soil. Laterite and sand in winter-wet depressions with dwarf paperbarks.
  • Drosera × pingellyensis — moist soil. White sand on the edges of wet depressions.
  • Drosera depauperata — wet soil. Lake edges and wet depressions in sandy soil under paperbarks.
  • Drosera enodes — wet soil. Black peaty sand on swamp edges.
  • Drosera micra — wet soil. Black sandy soil in winter-wet swampland.
  • Drosera microscapa — wet soil. Black silty sand in seepage areas of swampy heath.
  • Drosera occidentalis — wet soil. Peaty sand around swamp edges, winter-wet depressions and seeps.
  • Drosera paleacea — wet soil. Black sand among reeds and paperbarks on flats that flood in winter.
  • Drosera pulchella — wet soil. Sand, peaty sand, peat, laterite or loam on the edges of lakes, swamps, streams and seeps; sometimes grows submerged.
  • Drosera pygmaea — wet soil. A wide range of poor soils, usually near winter water: seeps, trailside ditches, peaty swamp edges, and shallow sand or clay in exposed heath.
  • Drosera roseana — wet soil. Peaty sand on swamp edges.
  • Drosera × badgerupii — wet soil. Peaty sand or pure peat on swamp and lake edges. Often goes dormant in summer in cultivation.
  • Drosera × legrandii — wet soil. Black silty sand in swampy heath.
  • Drosera × sidjamesii — wet soil. Silica sand stabilised by sedges on lake shores; sometimes underwater in wet winters.