Drosera rotundifolia

Round-leaved sundew

Family: Droseraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Round-leaved sundew is a California native perennial found in northwestern coastal areas, Cascade Range, and Sierra Nevada High Country in swamps, wet meadows, and peatlands at elevations below 2,700 meters. Flowering from June to September, this carnivorous plant produces delicate white to pink flowers 4 to 6 millimeters long with white petals. Growing with thin stems 5 to 35 centimeters tall, it forms clusters of low-growing rosettes in moist environments. Its distinctive leaves are rounded, 3 to 12 millimeters long and 4 to 20 millimeters wide, covered with sticky glandular hairs that trap and digest small insects. The plant produces small seeds 1 to 1.5 millimeters long with fine, regular longitudinal striations.

Habitat: Uncommon. Swamps, wet meadows, forests, peatlands, often with

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: < 2700 m

Bioregions: NW (esp near coast), CaR, SNH

California counties: Plumas, Mendocino, Butte, Humboldt, Tulare, El Dorado, Fresno, Del Norte, Nevada, Siskiyou, Alpine, Sierra, Lassen, Madera, Placer, Shasta, Sonoma, Trinity, Tuolumne, Tehama, Calaveras, Colusa, Mariposa

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.