Great Sundew

Drosera anglica Huds.

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NT EN   Rare
Native

Great Sundew by Bob Ellis

Great Sundew is an insectivorous, rosette-forming perennial herb growing in the wetter parts of raised and blanket bogs (often in standing water), in flushed valley bogs, on stony lake shores and, more rarely, in calcareous mires  (F. J. Rumsey in Preston et al 2002).

In Norfolk, Great Sundew seems to have been steadily disappearing. It has never been particularly common; Nicholson (2014) listed 29 locations; Petch & Swann (1968) listed 16 hectads whereas Beckett et al (1999) listed just the five sites below and it has only been recorded at two of these since 2000, though it may still turn up at Scarning Fen or Roydon Common.

Drosera anglica map

Year GR Locality Recorders
1987 TG012117 Badley Moor MC, CH, JMH
Monitoring scheme
1999 TF683219 Roydon Common RY
1999 TF982120 Scarning Fen DMa, BM
2009 TG085372 Holt Lowes RWE, SH, NFG
TG08543724, TG08553723, TG08533724, TG08533725, TG08523724. c.80 plants
2012 TG165423 Beeston Regis Common RWE, FMS
Also in 2009 at TG164422 RWE, NFG and in 2007 at TG164423, RWE