All British wild flowers are protected and it is illegal to collect them
unless you have a licence. As usual, officialdom has gone over the top,
and I am sure nobody would howl too loudly if you collected a few seed
pods of Drosera Rotundifolia from a population of hundreds of thousands.
However I cannot condone the actions of the individual caught by the UK
CPS digging up potfuls of Droseras from the dwindling population in the
New Forest.
By the way, it sounds from the conversation about U Olivacea that the US
Federal Authorities and the ICPS ought to join up and bring this species
into protective custody, otherwise it is in grave danger of lapsing into
extinction.
Good Growing, Nigel Hurneyman