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Drosera Rotundifolia - Sun Dew

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Drosera Rotundifolia: Sundew, round-leaved sundew.

Sundew is a small, insect eating perennial that only grows 5 to 25 centimeters tall. Surviving mainly in Spagnum bogs, fens, and wet meadows at low to middle elevations in the Pacific Northwest.

The long tentacles act as an insect trap for small mosquitos and gnats; exuding a sticky liquid that acts like fly paper when insects crawl on the leaves.

The leaves were popular amoungst West Coast Salish, and other other northwest native groups, for removing corns, warts, and bunyons. The Haida used the leaves as a good luck charm, because the leaves were in the shape of a heart. Europeans used the juices from the leaves in preparations for cheeses and junkets, and for removing warts. The sap contains an antibiotic has been used effectively against bacteria, tuberculosis, asthma, bronchitis and coughs.