Scientific Name
Drosera spp.

Common Name
Sundew

Life Cycle: Perennial

Height: .5 foot
Flower/fruit: Small white flowers on a 3 to 15 inch smooth, slender stalk; flowers have five sepals, five stamens, five petals and a pistil with three styles
Flowering Season: Summer
Foliage: Basal rosette of leaves with gland-tipped red hairs which exude little droplets of a sticky fluid
Site: Constantly moist soil; sun; found in bogs and on ditch banks 
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