Round Leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun
Water Preferences:	Wet Wet Mesic Mesic
Plant Height:	Up to 10 inches
Leaves:	Unusual foliage color Evergreen
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Color:	White
Bloom Size:	Under 1"
Flower Time:	Summer
Suitable Locations:	Terrariums Bog gardening
Uses:	Culinary Herb
Resistances:	Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Seeds:	Self fertile Sow in situ
Propagation: Other methods:	Division
Pollinators:	Self
Containers:	Suitable in 1 gallon
Miscellaneous:	Tolerates poor soil Carnivorous

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Posted by robertduval14 (Milford, New Hampshire - Zone 5b) on Mar 28, 2014 10:25 PM concerning plant:

Native in my local area. There is a bog I like to hike nearby that has a massive colony of these growing, with individual plants numbering in the thousands. Dragonflies get caught up in them in huge numbers.

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Posted by KFredenburg (Black Hills, SD - Zone 5a) on Aug 12, 2020 2:30 PM concerning plant:

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
The genus name, Greek for "dewy", refers to the moist, glistening drops on the leaves, to which small organisms stick. Longer-stalked glands near the edge of a leaf slowly bend inward, securing and placing an entrapped organism in the digestive area of stalkless glands.

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Drosera Round Leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)