Drosera rotundifoliaL.

round-leaved sundew

WFO wfo-0000946157 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Drosera rotundifolia, photographed by Svyatoslav Knyazev
fig. a Svyatoslav Knyazev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205106128
Drosera rotundifolia, photographed by Asher Budnik
fig. b Asher Budnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205942579
Drosera rotundifolia, photographed by Jason K.
fig. c Jason K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205895973
Drosera rotundifolia, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205151506
Drosera rotundifolia, photographed by Bridgette Clarkston
fig. e Bridgette Clarkston, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205964877
Drosera rotundifolia, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. f Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204506217
Drosera rotundifolia, photographed by Elias
fig. g Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204946712
Drosera rotundifolia, photographed by Anne Thomson
fig. h Anne Thomson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204695267

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 453 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 453 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Drosera corsica (Maire) A.W.Hill
  • Drosera rotundifolia f. comosa (Fernald) B.Boivin
  • Drosera rotundifolia f. rotundifolia
  • Drosera rotundifolia subsp. rotundifolia
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. breviscapa Regel
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. comosa Fernald
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. corsica Maire
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. distachya DC.
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. furcata Y.Z.Ruan
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. gracilis Laest. ex Hultén
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. longipetiolata H.Lév.
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. maritima Graebn.
  • Drosera rotundifolia var. rotundifolia
  • Drosera septentrionalis (Scop.) Stokes
  • Rorella rotundifolia (L.) All.
  • Rossolis rotundifolia (L.) Moench
  • Rossolis septentrionalis Scop.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.