Drosera rotundifolia

Drosera rotundifolia

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Droseraceae
Genus: Drosera
Subgenus: Drosera subg. Drosera
Section: Drosera sect. Drosera
Species:
D. rotundifolia
Binomial name
Drosera rotundifolia
Synonyms
Homotypic
  • Rorella rotundifolia (L.) All.
  • Rossolis rotundifolia (L.) Moench
Heterotypic
  • Drosera belezeana E.G.Camus
  • Drosera corsica (Maire) A.W.Hill
  • Drosera rotundifolia subsp. bracteata J.Kern & Stern
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. breviscapa Regel
  • Drosera rotundifolia f. breviscapa Domin
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. capillaris A.A.Eaton & Wright
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. caulescens Gray
  • Drosera rotundifolia f. comosa (Fernald) B.Boivin
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. comosa Fernald
  • Drosera rotundifolia f. corsica Maire
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. corsica Briq.
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. distachya DC.
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. furcata Y.Z.Ruan
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. furcata Westerl.
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. gracilis Laest. ex Hultén
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. longipetiolata H.Lév.
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. maritima Graebn.
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. perennis Gray
  • Drosera rotundifolia f. pygmaea Popov
  • Drosera septentrionalis (Scop.) Stokes
  • Rossolis septentrionalis Scop.

Drosera rotundifolia, the round-leaved sundew, roundleaf sundew, or common sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens. 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 in New Guinea.