Round-leaved Sundew is a carnivorous bog plant that captures insects on sticky glandular hairs covering its round, red-flushed leaves. It obtains nitrogen from digested insects in the nutrient-poor sphagnum bogs it inhabits. It is one of the most widespread carnivorous plants in the world, circumpolar in distribution across boreal zones.
Habitat
Sphagnum bogs, wet sedge meadows, and lakeshores across boreal North America
Diet
Carnivorous; traps insects on sticky leaves for nitrogen
How common
Uncommon
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