Drosera anglica is a small, acaulescent perennial herb that grows from short rhizomes. Its leaves are typically basal, although sometimes they can be cauline and alternate. These leaves are simple, linear-oblanceolate, and measure 1.5–10 cm in length and 0.3–0.7 cm in width. Unique to this plant, the blade can either act as an active trap that closes upon touch or be covered with mucilage-tipped tentacle hairs containing irritable compounds to which insects adhere. The surfaces of these leaves are covered with long, glandular, tentacle hairs with swollen, reddish heads that secrete a sticky fluid, trapping flies and other insects upon contact. The petioles are 0.8–8 cm long, and the plant either lacks stipules or has them in a dry, membranous form adnate to the base of the petiole. The flowers of this plant usually form in helicoid cymes, though they can rarely be racemose or solitary. There are typically 2–6 flowers on scapes 6–18 cm long. The flowers are bisexual (perfect) and actinomorphic, opening only briefly and sometimes cleistogamous. The calyx consists of (4)5(–8) sepals slightly connate at the base, imbricate, and persistent. The petals, white in color, are as numerous as the sepals and distinct. The plant has (4)5(10–20) stamens, with anthers that are dithecal and open longitudinally. The superior ovary is 3(–5)-carpellate and 1-celled, with numerous anatropous ovules and parietal placentation. The styles are (1)3–5, often branched, with as many stigmas as style tips. The fruit is a loculicidal capsule slightly exceeding the calyx, measuring 5–7 mm long and dehiscing by as many valves as styles. The seeds are dark brown, irregularly fusiform, approximately 1.2 mm long, with a longitudinally striate surface and a short, straight, basal embryo embedded in starchy endosperm. It is commonly found in bogs, indicating its preference for moist, acidic environments at approximately 170 meters.