? Drosera rotundifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Caryophyllales Family: Droseraceae Genus: Drosera Species: D. rotundifolia
Binomial name
Drosera rotundifolia Linnaeus

Drosera rotundifolia (the common sundew or round-leaved sundew) is a species of sundew, a carnivorous plant often found in boggy and marshy locations. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1377x1033, 287 KB) Description: Rundblättriger Sonnentau - Drosera rotundifolia (sticky) Source: selbst fotographiert Date: 30. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ... Families Achatocarpaceae Aizoaceae (Fig-marigold family) Amaranthaceae (amaranth family) Ancistrocladaceae Asteropeiaceae Barbeuiaceae Basellaceae (basella family) Cactaceae (cactus family) Caryophyllaceae (carnation family) Dioncophyllaceae Droseraceae (sundew family) Drosophyllaceae Frankeniaceae Molluginaceae (carpetweed family) Nepenthaceae Nyctaginaceae (four-oclock family) Physenaceae Phytolaccaceae (pokeweed family) Plumbaginaceae (plumbago family) Polygonaceae (buckwheat family) Portulacaceae (purslane family) Rhabdodendraceae... Genus Aldrovanda Dionaea Drosera Drosophyllum The Droseraceae are a family of carnivorous plants, commonly known as the sundew family. ... Categories: Plant stubs | Carnivorous plants | Magnoliopsida ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as (help· info), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), the name with which his publications were signed, was a Swedish botanist and physician who laid the foundations for the modern scheme... In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ... Species See text Drosera cv. ... A Nepenthes in flower, growing on a road cut in Palau A carnivorous plant is a plant that derives some or most of its nutrients (but not energy) by trapping and consuming animals, especially insects and other arthropods. ... Freshwater marsh in Florida In geography, a marsh is a type of wetland, featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water. ...

The distribution of D. rotundifolia includes all of Europe except some areas around the Mediterranean), much of Siberia, large parts of northern North America and the Appalachian Mountains, Japan and is also found on New Guinea. Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one. ... Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ... Siberia is also an album by Echo & The Bunnymen. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... A rainy day in the Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina The Appalachian Mountains (French: les Appalaches) are a vast system of North American mountains, partly in Canada, but mostly in the United States, extending as a zone, from 100 to 300 miles wide, running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada...

In the UK, this is the most common form of sundew and can be found on Exmoor, Dartmoor, Sedgemoor, the Lake District, Pennines and in Scotland. It typically grows amongst Sphagnum moss and is found in boggy or marshy areas, usually in hollows or corries on the side of mountains. Species See text Drosera cv. ... Dunster Yarn Market (a covered market for the sale of local cloth, built in 1609) and Dunster Castle, Exmoor Exmoor National Park is a national park situated on the Bristol Channel coast of Devon and Somerset in South West England. ... Dartmoor is a National Park in the centre of the English county of Devon. ... Sedgemoor is a local government district of Somerset in England. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Typical Pennine scenery. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Species See text Sphagnum is a genus of mosses commonly called peat moss due to its prevalence in peat bogs. ... This article is about the geographical feature. ...

Drosera rotundifolia in a peat moss cushion

The plant feeds on insects, which are attracted to its bright red colour and flat leaves containing a sticky glue that is loaded with a sugary substance. It has evolved this carnivorous behaviour as the area in which it lives is usually poor in nutrients. The plant extracts nitrates and other nutrients from insect bodies, which become stuck to the leaves. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 783 KB) Beschreibung/ Description Bleichmoospolster (Sphagnum spec. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 783 KB) Beschreibung/ Description Bleichmoospolster (Sphagnum spec. ... Species See text Sphagnum is a genus of mosses commonly called peat moss due to its prevalence in peat bogs. ... Classes & Orders See taxonomy Insects are invertebrate animals of the Class Insecta, the largest and (on land) most widely-distributed taxon within the phylum Arthropoda. ... This article deals with meat-eating animals. ... Nitrates are the salts of nitric acid. ...

The leaves of the common sundew are arranged in a rosette and a typical plant will have a diameter of around 3-4 centimetres. A rosette of leaves at the base of a dandelion In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of the leaves, with all the leaves at a single height. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ...

It flowers over the summer months, with a number of small white flowers arranged around a single stem.

In the UK, it is a protected wild flower and therefore it is a criminal offence to remove all or part of one of these plants from the wild.

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