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The Plants of Michigan

by Henry A. Gleason

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Droseraceae, the Sundew Family

Insectivorous herbs, with a rosette of basal leaves bearing gland-tipped bristles on their upper surface, and with slender racemes of small white flowers in summer; inhabitants of bogs and swamps (2 dm. high, or less).

1a. Leaf-blade about as long as wideSundew, Drosera rotundifolia.
1b. Leaf-blade about 2-3 times as long as wideSundew, Drosera longifolia.
1c. Leaf-blade about 5-8 times as long as wideSundew, Drosera anglica.
1d. Leaf-blade narrowly linear, about 10 times as long as wideSundew, Drosera linearis.

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