Drosera rotundifolia
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Lee Casebere @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995.¬ƯNortheast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester. |
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913.¬ƯAn illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 203. |
| Botanical name: | Drosera rotundifolia L. |
| Common name: | roundleaf sundew |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Droseraceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 8 - 10" |
| Foliage: | leaves round on long stalks, basal rosettes, crimson colored |
| Flower: | white to pinkish, 3/8"-1/2" across; 5 petals |
| Flowering time: | July - August |
| Habitat: | statewide, less common in Cumberland and Salem Counties |
| Range in New Jersey: | wet peaty, acid soils of bogs, cedar swamps |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | Stone, in 1910, says, "In the Pine Barrens this species seems to be
the least abundant of the three Sundews, but it is the characteristic
species of the cedar swamps where the others do not seem to occur. Here
it grows deep down in the soft wet billowy masses of sphagnum moss, its
slender flower stalk rising sometimes to a height of eight or ten
inches. In open places it is much more stunted."(468). |