38 MAYFAIR NURSERIES, Box 87, Hillsdale, N. J. 
Draba rigida. The tiniest of the genus. Very minute evergreen leaves in tight little tufts 
about half an inch high with very thin flower stems about two inches high, each 
with three or four yellow flowers in April, A dainty subject for sink gardens and 
small rock crevices. I have had it growing in a crack of a concrete wall for years. 
It wants a gritty lime soil in sun or light shade. (pH 7-8): 
Draba sibirica. An evergreen spreading mat forming species from Siberia with small, 
broad leaves in flat, loose rosettes. A profusion of bright yellow flowers on long 
ascending stems to 3 inches high in April and May and again in October and 
November. A pretty ground cover and useful in walls and walks. Easy to grow in 
ordinary, garden soil in sun or hald shade. (pH 6-8) Color, HCC 2, Canary Yellow. 
DROSERA. Sundew. (Droseraceae, Sundew Family) 
Drosera filiformis. An insect eating plant of interesting and attractive appearance. Long 
thread-like leaves about 6 inches high unfurling from fiddleheads and covered with 
bright red sticky hairs that hold the insects when they alight. Showy purple flowers 
on spikes 12 inches ‘high from June to August. This interesting plant is a native of 
the New Jersey Pine Barrens and must be grown in a wet acid peat or sphagnum 
bog or at the edges of pools or streams. Full sun or light shade. Soil must always 
be wet. 
Dorsera intermedia. This one forms a little rosette of small spoon shaped leaves about’ 
2 inches high, covered with the same sticky red rairs. The leaves curl up around 
the tiny insects it catches. Small white flowers on 6 inch stems in July. 
Drosera rotundifolia. Small rosettes of round leaves on petiols 1%4 inches long, covered 
with the sticky red hairs. White flowers on 6 inch stems in July. All three species 
glisten when the sun is on their tiny drops of glue. Same treatment as D. filiformis. 
Courtesy American Rock Garden Society 
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