Family: Droseraceae Salisb.
Distribution: Arctic and temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
Ecology: Grows in bogs, on moors and heaths, from lowlands to mountains.
Description: Perennial carnivorous herb, 4–20 cm high. The leaves are in a basal rosette, long-petiolate, rounded and fleshy, with long glandular hairs. The flowers in a few-flowered spike, tiny, white. Flowers from June to August.
Endangering and Protection: The Common Sundew is a strictly protected plant in some countries (CZ, SK).
Note: Grows in sites with poor soils, acquires missing sustenance from bodies of insects.
These images were taken in Czechia, Moravia, Nové Město na Moravě (from 28. 6. to 23. 9. 2003) and Bohemia, Máchovo jezero, Swamp (flowers, August 5, 2007).
