Seasonal Wild Flowers

Round-leaved Sundew

Drosera rotundifolia

Droseraceae

June to August

It is mainly found in the Northwest and parts of the Southwest,

the South, East Anglia and the Northeast.

For a map see the National Biodiversity Network Gateway

It grows in damp, acid heath and moorland, bogs and ditches,

usually growing among Sphagnum.

Round-leaved Sundew is a native, insectivorous, rosette-forming,

perennial herb, growing up to 10cm.

Flowers are small, white and 5-petalled.

Leaves are fleshy, yellow-green to bright purple, and covered in

glandular hairs.

The hairs trap and kill insects and the leaves absorb nutrients

from their carcasses.

Round-leaved Sundew - Woodbury Common, Devon

Amongst Sphagnum, Clougha, Lancaster

Flower spike

Insectivorous leaf

Side and front views of leaves

Dew-laden leaves