This widely distributed carnivorous perennial forms rosettes of fleshy light-green spoon-shaped leaves that produce sensitive fluid secreting glands. The saucer-shaped white to pink flowers appear from spring to autumn at the top of a tall stem

Hardiness zones 4 to 9

Drosera rotundifoliais naturally found in the Northern Hemisphere from Europe to North America and from Russia to Asia growing in peaty moorland bogs on moist to wet soils. It prefers a open sunny position and is drought tender but frost resistant.

The Round-leaved Sundew is a small cool climate carnivorous plant that is grown as a curiosity indoor terrarium specimen plant or is planted in bog gardens and around moist rock ledges. It establishes from seeds in 1 to 2 years. ID 1294

Drosera(DRO-se-ra) rotundifolia (ro-tun-de-FOL-lee-a)

Droseracea(DROS-er-AY-see-ee)