This species occurs mostly on seasonally wet acid infertile soils in open woodland and grassland on the southeastern Coastal Plain. There are several disjunct inland populations in Miss., Ala., Ga. and s. Tenn. (FNA 25), but only one in Ky. These plants in PULA grow in a highly diverse unique remnant of native vegetation on acid xerohydric soils; see also Drosera brevifolia.