How To Use Sundew In A Sentence
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Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes.
Gros Morne National Park, Canada
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Out with Barry Goater watching tiny flies struggling in the clutches of the science-fiction sundew plants on Dyke Heath, we also clocked two new birds to add to the ninety species already listed in the log: a pair of hobbies, the male perched on a stump, and a spotted flycatcher.
Wildwood
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Bladderworts, pitcher plants, and sundews all indulge their carnivorous tastes.
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Our laboratory results supported our... prediction that spider presence would reduce sundew fitness, " the researchers wrote.
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Carnivorous plants such as sundews utilise the dew that forms on their leaf surfaces in a more sinister way, mixing it with a sticky honey-like substance which attracts, then traps, the insects upon which the plants feed.
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Spaghnum bogs with insect-eating sundew plants and snowshoe hares make the Dolly Sods an important outpost of a more northern biome.
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From pillows of sphagnum that over millennia have built up this extraordinary place, carmine glitter of round-leaved sundew attracts the eye, slowly digesting its captured insect-life.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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I haven't seen this in action yet, as my sundews are my smallest carnivores currently and I can't find small enough live bugs to try and feed them.
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There, while hunting for the rare bog orchid, he stumbled on the minuscule, insectivorous sundew plant, Drosera rotundifolia.
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This terrarium contains examples of the Australian lance-leafed sundew (Drosera adelae) and the delicate triggerplant (Stylidium debile), both of which are carnivorous.
Fantastic Fiction at KGB » Blog Archive » Carnivorous Plant Terrarium
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There are also round-leaved sundews, some shrubs of Labrador tea and bog bilberry, and various colorful wildflowers, including four members of the lily family - bog asphodel, western tofieldia, beavertail grass, and Hastingsia alba.
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Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew:
Mennonites, those Goth kids, and al Qaeda
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Among them are a bladderwort, a butterwort, two kinds of pitcher plant, and three kinds of sundew.
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From pillows of sphagnum that over millennia have built up this extraordinary place, carmine glitter of round-leaved sundew attracts the eye, slowly digesting its captured insect-life.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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Prized discoveries include Lincolnshire's largest colony of the endangered sand leek, a member of the onion family, and the country's biggest concentration of sundew.
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Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
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Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
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Common sphagnum bog herbs are bunchberries, sundews (Drosera sp.) and bog orchids.
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This nationally rare and endangered habitat is home to more than 5,000 types of plant and animals that are rarely found elsewhere, including the nightjar and bog-loving plants such as cottongrass and sundew.
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The diverse flora of the bog can be seen including mosses, lichens, heathers, sedges and insect-eating sundews, and in early summer the bog is a carpet of colour from flowering milkworts, tormentils, orchids, bog cotton and other plants.
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As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles.
Wildwood
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And, in rapid succession, he made one critical observation after another - first on the common English plants known as primulas, then on native orchids, and then on insect-eating sundews.
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I searched in vain for a patch of sundews, the little carnivorous plants that live in just this kind of environment, so I could show off my meagre botanical knowledge.
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Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew:
Mennonites, those Goth kids, and al Qaeda
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To the sundew, insects are prey rather than pollinators.
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Very precious are two populations of marsh violets: the creeping violet and the fen violet, as well as a whole group of peatbog plants with the mud sedge, round leaf and long leaf sundew, arrowgrass, Buxbaum sundew, and crested wood fern.
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Dark algal mats and waterlogged mosses on a layer of peat are spotted with carnivorous, quarter-sized sundews, red as rust.
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Other antitussives in these parts include coltsfoot, mullein, sundew, and plantain.
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Largest of its kind, the South African king sundew unfurls.
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Other native American herbs that serve as expectorants include yerba santa (Eriodictyon californica), grindelia grandiflora, balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera and P.candicans), polygala senega, sundew (Drosera rotundiflora), lobelia seed or leaf tincture (L. inflata), boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) and pleurisy root (Asclepias tuberosa).
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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Genuinely was sensibly imploringly than a solvable sandpile of easy krakatao in the earth, hurried therefor the farsightedness with all the pillar of a chemoreceptive sundew in diapason.
Rational Review
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For he had often spent an hour in the place with the doctor, collecting buckthorn and coral-moss, curious lichens, sphagnum, and the round, and long-leaved sundews, or butterwort: for all these plants abounded here, with the bramble and bracken.
The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
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Sundew in toxical quantities, developed hoarseness, with expectoration of yellow mucus from the throat and upper lungs, as well as a hacking cough, and loss of flesh, this combination of symptoms closely resembling the form of tubercular consumption which begins in the throat, and extends mischievously to the lungs.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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The sweet herbal aroma of bog myrtle drifts from the shallow mires that harbour a tangle of willows and silver-barked birch or are spattered yellow with asphodels and wine-red with insect-eating sundew leaves.
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Bogs support some of the most interesting plants in the United States (like the carnivorous sundew), and provide habitat to animals threatened by human encroachment.
Bog
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As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles.
Wildwood
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This terrarium contains examples of the Australian lance-leafed sundew (Drosera adelae) and the delicate triggerplant (Stylidium debile), both of which are carnivorous.
Fantastic Fiction at KGB » Blog Archive » Carnivorous Plant Terrarium
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Although when most people think of flesh eating plants they probably think of the Venus Fly Trap, there are hundreds of different species of carnivorous plants, which range from the Triffid-like Pitcher Plant, to the sticky leafed Sundew.
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I searched in vain for a patch of sundews, the little carnivorous plants that live in just this kind of environment, so I could show off my meagre botanical knowledge.
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Unusual plants, such as sundew (Drosera spp.), butterwort (Pinguicula spp.) and bladderwort (Utricularia spp.), supplement their diet in this nutrient-poor environment by catching and digesting insects.
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An even larger area of land where the sundew plant grows was polluted with nitrogen in breach of critical loads.
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The savanna understory includes an endemic insectivorous sundew (Drosera indica).
Sumba deciduous forests
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There'll be miniature forests of sundews glittering in the sunshine.
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Other plants include black-root, two tiny-leaved species of blueberry, blueflower butterwort, early blue violet, fringed yellow stargrass pineweeds, pink sundew, queen's delight, semaphore thoroughwort, and small butterwort.
