Tamlin - Thanks for the reply and taxonomy refresher. I am very new to CP's and have been killing VFT's since my youth, through ignorance. I swore I'd never buy another one, but when Home depot had a batch of them - I just couldn't resist. But this time I was going to make sure I knew how to keep them alive for more than three months. That was in June. In September I bought a "clump" of the aforementioned sundew, but didn't know more than its genus name. So I went to the bookstores and the internet. A lot of them looked alike - to me - particularly the spatulat, rotundifolia, capillaris, and intermediata. It didn't help that I was looking in the book entitled, "Carnivorous Plants of North America" as well as mostly indistiguishable home photos of red sundews. Mine was all green. but, between your website and some fella that had several photos of the one he bought - I was reasonably convinced I had a spatulata, particularly the one sub-species. Anyways, it's / they are still alive and green, with a little bit of red, and dewy. I thought I had 10 or 12 plants, and decided to start separating them, I plucked the one by one from them perimeter an placed what I thought were four single plants into four individual containers. Surprisingly, they all lived. Upon closer inspection I noticed that I had 7 or 8 plants separated out. The original clump looks no smaller. I think they're growing and getting "elbow room." Well, that's why I asked about the rhyzomes. Is it possible that I had almost 20 plants in one 1.5" clump? I can see why you referred to them as "weeds" in something I read. What does glabarous mean? Also, the forum control panel informs me that I haven't chosen an avatar. What is that - please don't say it is the gal who plays the part of a spaceship in a Roddenberry program called Andromeda.
