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Other antitussives in these parts include coltsfoot, mullein, sundew, and plantain.
Among them are a bladderwort, a butterwort, two kinds of pitcher plant, and three kinds of sundew.
An even larger area of land where the sundew plant grows was polluted with nitrogen in breach of critical loads.
There, while hunting for the rare bog orchid, he stumbled on the minuscule, insectivorous sundew plant, Drosera rotundifolia.
Another special interest for nature lovers are the protected peat bogs with rare wetland plants such as sundew and orchids.
Here you can see glacial relics such as the saxifrage, sundew, Charles' sceptre and Jacob's ladder.
Unusual plants, such as sundew, butterwort and bladderwort, supplement their diet in this nutrient-poor environment by catching and digesting insects.
Among the special plants which grow here is the round-leafed sundew, which catches insects with the sticky tentacles on its leaves.
At the bog, sundew, bog laurel, cloudberry, lady fern, skunk cabbage, common rush, bog cranberry, bog blueberry, and sphagnum moss all flourish.
Droseraceae, sundew plant family, consisting of three genera and some 155 species of carnivorous plants in the order Caryophyllales.
On peaty areas: golden ray, cotton grass, marsh marigold and carnivorous plants as common butterwort and round-leaved sundew.
Unlike the sundew and bladderwort, the Pitcher-plant does not produce digestive enzymes.
The undergrowth contains listed plants including the Turk's cap lily, Jacob's ladder, common sundew and ten orchid varieties.
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.
The site was remarkably colonized by the round-leaved sundew, Drosera rotundiflora.
There are also rare plants like the insectivorous sundew, shrubby birch, marsh saxifrage, and Charles' sceptre.
It provides a home for the red squirrel and colonies of sundew and butterwort, two of the few carnivorous plants native to Britain.
These dams will encourage water retention, enabling plants such as bog asphodel, sundew and sphagnum to re-establish.
Other plants include the sundew, pitcher plant, rare orchids, bog rosemary, Labrador tea, several species of cotton grass, and a variety of low heath shrubs.
All species of sundew are able to move their tentacles in response to contact with edible prey.
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One of these, the sundew, has leaves which are covered on one side with tiny glandular hairs.
In a small marsh near the end of the garden were some plants of the sundew.
In the nearly related land form, Pinguicula, however, there is much the same arrangement as in the sundew.
The same process takes place in the sundew where, however, the mechanism is somewhat different.
Again, the mossy bog may glisten in the sun, and thousands of sundew plants with their pink leaves are growing upon the surface.
No little creature of tender wing ever touches a sundew except under penalty of death.
He speaks in one of his letters of his intention of working at sundew as a rest from the Descent of Man.
The member of this species best known to British botanists is the sundew.
In 1860 he had already begun to observe Sundew, and was full of astonishment at its behaviour.
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