Forêt de Rambouillet - Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, France - Carnivorous Plant Localities on Waymarking.com

[FR] Les coordonnées sont celles du parking. La drosera rotundifolia est une espèce protéger en France. Le ramassage, l'utilisation et le transport sont interdits. Bien que répartie sur l’ensemble du territoire français, sa présence n’est toujours que très locale.

[EN] The coordonates are those of the parking place. Drossera rotunidfolia is a protected species in France. Picking or transplanting them is forbidden.

It is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens. One of the most widespread sundew species, it has a circumboreal distribution, being found in all of northern Europe, much of Siberia, large parts of northern North America, Korea and Japan but is also found as far south as California, Mississippi and Alabama in the United States of America and in New Guinea.

The plant feeds on insects, which are attracted to the glistening drops of mucilage, loaded with a sugary substance, covering its leaves. It has evolved this carnivorous behaviour in response to its habitat, which is usually poor in nutrients or is so acidic that nutrient availability is severely decreased. The plant uses enzymes to dissolve the insects – which become stuck to the glandular tentacles – and extract ammonia (from proteins) and other nutrients from their bodies.

Parking Location: 00° 00.000 000° 00.000 Type of Locality: Wild Terrain Difficulty: Aldrovanda: no Byblis: no Cephalotus: no Darlingtonia: no Dionaea: no Drosera: yes Drosophyllum: no Genlisea: no Heliamphora: no Nepenthes: no Pinguicula: no Sarracenia: no Triphyophyllum: no Utricularia: no Species Present: Not listed

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