Shropshire

Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)

This crimson carnivore, heaving with glues and acids to trap and devour careless insects! But Round-leaved Sundew is a bog plant, and so belongs to a precious and diminishing habitat. Wet bogs are still part of Shropshire's buoyant landscape of ridges and vales, especially in the west.

Habitat: wet moors and peat-bogs. Flowers: June-August

Image © Bob Gibbons/Natural Image