Round-leaved Sundew

Drosera rotundifolia L.

GB Red List England Red List GB Scarcity Norfolk Scarcity
  NT    
Native, Axiophyte

Round-leaved Sundew by Robin Stevenson

Round-leaved Sundew is an insectivorous rosette-forming perennial herb of damp acid heath and moorland, bogs and upland flushes, growing among Sphagnum or on bare acid peat. It can be an abundant colonist of ditch sides cut through wet, peaty ground (F. J. Rumsey in Preston et al, 2002).

In Norfolk, Round-leaved Sundew is by far the most widespread and abundant of the sundews although it is confined to a restricted and perhaps diminishing number of locations with suitable habitat.

Drosera rotundifolia map

Year GR Locality Recorders
1993 TF681145 Blackborough End NFG
Site destroyed by tipping.
2008 TF682216 Grimston Warren RML, FMS & NFG
TF68262166
2009 TF670192 Bawsey Country Park CRS, RWE, NFSG
TF67061920. Several plants in flushed area at edge of lake. Also TF67031915.
2010 TG188180 Horsford Heath RWE
A few plants.
2011 TF693208 Grimston, Sugar Fen CRS, RML, NFG
TF69322082
2011 TG176216 Buxton Heath RWE
Also in 2008, TG173215, TG173217, TG174216, TG175216, RWE, HEA. In 2003, 172215 RWE, NFG 
2012 TF682297 Dersingham Bog RNC, ALB, NFG
Also TF683296. In 2008, TF675292, TF677293, TF678294, TF679293, TF682297
2012 TF702158 East Winch Common RNC, RWE, NFG
TF70221587, within NWT reserve.  Also TF70211583
2012 TG165423 Beeston Regis Common RWE, FMS
Also in 2007, TG164422, RWE.
2013 TF685218 Roydon Common RNC
TF68532186, outflow stream from bog and adjacent wet heath. Also in 2005, TF680225 and other peaty areas, BG, NFG, TF684229 RWE, NFG.
2013 TG085372 Holt Lowes RWE
Also TG087371 and in 2010, TG086372. In 2009, TG084372 RWE, SH, NFG.
2013 TG373210 Catfield Hall Fen FJR, TP etc.
Also in 2006, TG373211, RWE, FMS, NNNS.
2015 TG398031 Limpenhoe Meadows SSSI RWE, MPG, NFG
TG39860315 & TG39880314.
2017 TG260292 Bryant's Heath RWE, JMP NFG
In a small area of bog.
2017 TG369211 Catfield Fen (Butterfly Conservation) JMP
In 2015, TG370214. In 2009, TG368210, TG369210, RWE, RML, NFG.
2018 TG413185 Potter Heigham Marshes, NNR RWE, JMP, NFG
Also TG413186, TG414185, TG414186.