Scientific name: Drosera anglica Huds.
Common name: Great Sundew
Description
Habit: A small perennial, to 15 cm high, insectivorous.
Stems: Flower stalks erect, arising from the centre of a leaf-rosette.
Leaves: In a basal rosette; up to 13 cm long, erect or spreading, leaf-stalk hairless, leaf-blade oblong, 4-5 times as long as broad; red, sticky with gland-tipped hairs by which the insects are trapped and digested.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, 8-12 mm across, usually only open when weather is sunny, in a raceme of 5-8 flowers; sepals and petals 5; sepals united at base, petals free; stamens 5; ovary superior, styles 3.
Fruits: A capsule, seeds 1 mm long, with slightly loose coats.
Habitat: Bogs, rarely in fens.
Distribution: Rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No