Round leaved sundew
Drosera rotundifolia
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Drosera rotundifolia
- Group
- Eudicots
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Droseraceae
- Continent
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Habitat
- Wetlands
- Form
- Herb
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- White
- Blooms in
- Summer
- Use
- No special use
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Sticky drops on its leaf hairs trap small insects, and the hairs slowly bend over to hold the prey.
- Charles Darwin studied sundews and wrote a whole book about insect-eating plants in 1875.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q21187 · All plants · All entries