Drosera rotundifolia

40 seeds Drosera rotundifolia.

     Drosera rotundifolia - the round-leaved sundew or common sundew - is a species of sundew, a carnivorous plant often found in bogs, marshes and fens.
     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. Sundews are able to survive on nutrient-poor soils where other plants are at a disadvantage.
     One of the most widespread sundew species, it has a circumboreal distribution, being found in all of northern Europe, much of Siberia, large parts of northern North America, Korea and Japan but is also found as far south as California, Mississippi and Alabama in the United States of America and on New Guinea.
     D. rotundifolia is one of the temperate species of Drosera cultivated by growers interested in carnivorous plants. To be grown successfully, plants of the wild species must be given a substantial period of winter dormancy during which they form hibernacula.

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