The tentacles have a pretty purplish-red hue and form round balls at the leaf's end. Like many sundews, this one can form carpets of many tightly-packed plants. The flowers are salmon pink. Drosera palacea trichocaulis has tiny, silvery-green hairs in the crown, creating a fuzzy look. Drosera pulchella one of the prettiest miniature sundews, with bright pink flowers.
Plants reach about an inch in diameter.
D. pygmaea quite earns its name, the entire plant seldom exceeds one inch in diameter. Small pale flowers are often produced on short 1-3 inch stems.