Sundew: A small herbaceous, perennial, aquatic plant, with short and slender fibrous roots. Spherical leaves on long, depressed stalks can be erect or lying flat on the ground. The upper surface has long red glandular hairs containing a fluid, which looks like a dewdrop, hence its name. Flowers are very small and white, appearing in summer and early autumn and only open in the sunshine. Flower-stems are erect, slender, 1-15 cm tall. Produces numerous, spindle-shaped seeds. A little insectivorous plant found growing in muddy edges of ponds, bogs and rivers, where the soil is peaty.