Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Round-leaved Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, Drúchtín móna
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Round-leaved Sundew
Drosera rotundifolia
Drúchtín móna
Family: Droseraceae

Flowering time: June-August. Perennial. Native.

The small white flowers are 6-petalled and grow on hairless stalks. Basal rosettes of round leaves on horizontal hairy stalks, the leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects. Height: 10-15 cm.

Can be locally abundant on wet acid heaths and sphagnum bogs but is increasingly threatened by habitat destruction.

Hybrids occur with Oblong-leaved Sundew, Drosera intermedia

Round-leaved Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, Drúchtín móna

Round-leaved Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, Drúchtín móna
Round-leaved Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, Drúchtín móna

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