Easily mis-identified as : Flower

Hybridises with :

• The less common Great Sundew (Drosera anglica) to produce Obovate Sundew, but unlike Great Sundew, it grows over a much larger area, occupying mainly the most of the mountains of Scotland.
• Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) to produce Belezeana Sundew.

Uniquely identifiable characteristics

Distinguishing Feature : The round leaves should distinguish it from two other sundews, although it does hybridise with them.

Grows in upland acid peat bogs and other wet upland places. It is carnivorous eating insects. See Great Sundew for how it accomplishes this.

Round-leaved Sundew has been used in folk medicines for a long time to treat colds, coughs, bronchitis and asthma. In Italy it is used in a liqueur.

NAPTHOQUINONES and NAPTHAZARINS The compounds shown below are to be found in many plants of the Drosera Genus (Sundews). Plumbagin is the major napthoquinone contained within the Drosera Genera, (Sundews) of which Round Sundew is one. 7-methyl Juglone has the methyl group placed on the opposite ring from that of Plumbagin. Biramentaceone is the dimer of 7-methyljuglone, repeated again here for direct comparison. Other napthaquinones contained within Drosera species are Droserone, Hydroxydroserone. Hydroxydroserone is the only napthazarin shown here. Napthazarines are napthoquinones with two para-positioned OH groups. The glycosides of both Drosereone and 7-Methyljuglone are also present in Sundews. The Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), a member of the same Drosearaceae Family that Sundews are in, contains both Diomuscione and Muscipulone, but these compounds are not found in Sundews themselves.

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