Sundew Family:-

Sundew Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Sundew to Thyme Wild Flower Families Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Common Sundew

(Round-leaved Sundew)

Drosera rotundifolia

June-August

An insectivorous rosette-forming perennial herb of damp acid heath and moorland, bogs and upland flushes, growing among Sphagnum or on bare acid peat. It can be an abundant colonist of ditch sides cut through wet, peaty ground. 0-670 m (Snowdonia, Caerns.) and reportedly to 700 m in the Scottish Highlands.

Leaf from Upper Killoy in Gower on 10 July

Foliage from Kent in October

Form from Feur Lock on 21 June

Form from Hothfield in Kent on 8 July

Great Sundew

(English Sundew)

Drosera anglica

July-August

An insectivorous, rosette-forming perennial herb growing in the wetter parts of raised and blanket bogs (often in standing water), in flushed valley bogs, on stony lake shores and, more rarely, in calcareous mires. Generally lowland, but with an exceptional record of 915 m from Glas Maol (Angus).

Flower from New Forest on 21 July

Flowers from New Forest on 21 July

Foliage from Diabaig in Ross on1 July

Form from Diabaig on 1 July

Detail of Foliage

Gnat caught by its foliage in New Forest on 21 Juy

Fly caught by its foliage in Diabaig on 1 July

Form

Long-leaved Sundew

(Oblong-leaved Sundew)

Drosera intermedia

June-August

An insectivorous, rosette-forming perennial herb found on wet heaths, valley- and raised bogs, and in a band at the edge of oligotrophic lochs, most often on acidic peat over which water continuously seeps. It is rarely found in Sphagnum, and then only when Sphagnum forms a fringe around bog pools. 0-335 m (Donegal).

Form

Flower

Foliage eating flies in New Forest on 21 July

Form in New Forest on 20 July