🌱 Beginner-Friendly "Drama-free plant energy"

A paddle-leaved bug catcher that grows half in, half out of the water, like a tiny dewy hand reaching out of the swamp. Charming.

What you get: 1 live Drosera intermedia, shipped bare root (no pot, no soil), plus a plant care card, a QR code to our free online plant guide, and a discount code for your next order.

Quick facts

• Difficulty: beginner-friendly
• Light: full sun for the most dew; partial sun works with fewer sparkles
• Water: distilled, rain or RO only. Loves wetter feet than most sundews; stands in a water tray and shrugs off brief flooding
• Soil: 1:1 peat moss and perlite or silica sand. No compost or potting soil
• Dormancy: winter. Outdoors it shrinks into a tight resting bud (a hibernaculum). That is normal, not death
• Outdoors in USDA Zones 4a–9b
• Mature size: about 3 inches across
• Pet friendly
• Eats: fungus gnats, fruit flies

One of the most widely distributed sundews on Earth, native to bogs and wet shorelines across Europe, eastern North America, Cuba and northern South America. For anyone who wants a sundew that isn't just another rosette.

Fresh out of the box: ships bare root with no peat, sphagnum or pot. Pot into rinsed, damp peat or sphagnum using only distilled, RO or rain water, set the pot in a dish of the same water, and ease it back into bright light.

Cold weather: heat packs are required November through February for the live arrival guarantee. Outside those months, if any stop on the route from California to you could drop below 50°F, add a heat pack. Plants are dramatic about frostbite, and honestly, fair.

Live arrival guarantee: if your plant shows up in rough shape, send us a photo within 48 hours of delivery. For an eligible claim we may provide a replacement when available, a refund to the original payment method, a partial refund, store credit, or care and recovery instructions when the issue is cosmetic or reversible. Heat packs are required November through February for the guarantee. Orders over $100 ship UPS or USPS with shipping insurance. Orders usually ship within a few days, Monday through Wednesday, so plants never sit in a carrier warehouse over a weekend (we may make an exception if you're close by, likely to receive it by Saturday, or the weather along the route is mild). Full shipping and refund policies are on our website. Every plant is nursery grown in California.

Use only distilled, rain, or reverse-osmosis water

Sits happily in a tray of standing water — likes wetter feet than most sundews

No fertilizer needed — feeds on insects it catches with sticky dew

Nutrient-free mix: 1:1 peat moss and perlite or silica sand

Avoid composts or standard potting soil

Temperate populations naturally form winter resting buds (hibernacula) and benefit from a true dormancy period below ~40°F; tropical forms from Cuba and South America stay evergreen without one

Grows best between 60–85°F during active growing season

One of the most cold-hardy sundews in cultivation — tolerates real winters down to USDA Zone 4

Dormancy:

• Winter

Growing Zones (unless Indoors):

• 4a
• 4b
• 5a
• 5b
• 6a
• 6b
• 7a
• 7b
• 8a
• 8b
• 9a
• 9b

Native Area:

Bogs, fens, and wet sandy shorelines across Europe, eastern North America, Cuba, Hispaniola, and northern South America — one of only three sundew species native to Europe, and one of the most widespread Drosera species in the world

Self-seeds readily (expect baby sundews!)

Leaf cuttings root easily in moist peat/perlite mix

Can also be propagated by seed or by dividing offsets

• Indoors
• Outdoors

• Do you offer free shipping?
• Wild Wonders Oasis will run free shipping offers once orders have reached a certain threshold. You can find this information on the Product Pages, Cart Page, and Checkout Page.
  
  Shipping costs are calculated at checkout based on your order, location, selected carrier, and shipping speed. Basically, the plants need a safe little travel plan, and unfortunately the postal goblins do require payment. 📦🌿
  
  We do our best to offer available shipping options at checkout so you can choose what works best for you.
• Do you offer express shipping?
• Yes — express shipping options may be available at checkout.
  
  At checkout, you’ll see a variety of postal carriers and shipping speeds to choose from, depending on your location and the items in your order. Pick the option that works best for you and your leafy little travel companions. 🌿
  
  Please note that shipping speeds begin once the carrier receives the package — not while your plant is still being lovingly packed like the tiny botanical celebrity it is.