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Hey everyone,

I have some some questions regarding some of the plants I got from the mixed rosettes pack

This is definitely burmannii, right (top left corner)? Should I put these (I'm assuming) capillaris in their own pots and let them go dormant this year? And I just found my (assuming again) intermedia are flowering!

Maybe another more knowledgeable person will chime in, but that doesn't look quite like burmannii. Small and compact, but the leaf shape looks too rounded to me, though it could just still be young.
If that is capillaris (there's so much variety that it's a challenge to tell sometimes), they don't need a dormancy. Nothing in the Rosette mix needs a dormancy, they're all subtropical or tropical.
However, even though it's a subtropical version of a temperate plant, the intermedia will still go dormant if given the proper environmental cues. That's the one to move if any. But, seeing as how those can quickly become weeds in collections, maybe just collect seeds from that stalk and sow them in a new pot.

The burmannii(?) has very upright leaves and the snap tentacles are very short. Maybe a burmannii hybrid?

I completely forgot about everything be tropical/sub tropical. Thanks for the reminder.

Here’s what I see:

Red = burmannii
Blue = capillaris/tokaiensis (nearly impossible to distinguish just as rosettes with no additional info)
Green = intermedia
Yellow = nidiformis

Burmannii is from a pretty genetically isolated lineage so shouldn’t be able to hybridize with any other Drosera except for perhaps D. sessilifolia, if you even consider that a separate species.

Thank you! How can you tell nidiformis and intermedia apart at such young age?

The shape of the lamina really helps in addition to the narrower and slightly hairy petioles. I guess it just naturally happens when you spend too much time over the years watching the various stages of development in thousands of these little sundews.

I'm glad there is confirmation of the burmannii, but that wasn't specifically added to the original mix. You didn't the original mix, I believe you got a portion of the first donated mix, which also shouldn't have had burmannii. At least that's how I remember the conversation. And we haven't yet dug into the second or third donated mix.
Burmannii can sprout quickly, then pause for a time, which would allow others to overgrow them, so I suggested to not add them. But my word is not law (yet...), so some could have easily found a home in the mix.
Cute little specimen, keep it fed.

Well my little burmannii friend is flowering . I just moved them to very high light really quickly. All the other plants didn't react well (as expected) but the burmannii never skipped a beat.