[1] Drosera fulva is found in damp sandy soils in ephemeral wet depressions above seasonal flood levels or in seepage areas.

It is native to an area around Darwin from Koolpinyah to Noonamah in the southeast with a single collection from Port Essington.

[1] Armstrong collected the type specimens sometime between 1838 and 1840, but it wasn't until 1848 that Jules Émile Planchon formally described the new species as D. fulva.

Until recognised by Allen Lowrie as a distinct species, all other previous authors had treated D. fulva as a synonym of D. petiolaris.

[2] Australian botanist Allen Lowrie assessed this species' conservation status as common and not under threat in 1996.