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Flowering Raspberry vs Round-Leaved Sundew

Rubus odoratus

Drosera rotundifolia

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Flowering Raspberry
Round-Leaved Sundew

The Flowering Raspberry is an ornamental shrubby plant that blooms with fragrant light purple flowers throughout the summer and has a large, decorative foliage of bright green leaves. The flowers resemble that of a wildrose, and the foliage turns a bright yellow in the fall. This cultivar produces small red raspberries, similar to that of a thimbleberry, but the fruit is mostly tasteless.

The Flowering Raspberry, also known as Virginia Raspberry or Purple-Flowered Raspberry, makes a great hedge plant and is a good choice for attracting birds to your yard.

Round-Leaved Sundew is a native carnivorous plant, easily recognized by its bright green leaves covered in distinctive red, glandular hairs. These hairs secrete a sticky substance that is used to attract, trap, and digest insects. Their carnivorous nature allows them to survive in nutrient-poor, acidic soils where many other plants may struggle to grow.
They produce small white flowers that grow along the top of a slender, leafless stem. They can be found growing in wetlands, most often among sphagnum moss, in consistently moist, acidic soils. It does best in cooler summer climates and is intolerant of shade. Due to its small size, the plant can be difficult to spot in its natural habitat. Round-Leaved Sundew is an indicator of healthy wetland systems and is valued in ecological restoration and conservation projects.

Flowering Raspberry Quick Facts

Round-Leaved Sundew Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 3a
Height: 1.8 m (6 ft)
Height: 0.1 m (0.2 ft)
Spread: 4 m (12 ft)
Spread: 0.1 m (0.4 ft)
Light: any
Light: partial shade, full sun
Moisture: normal
Moisture: wet
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: slow
Life span: medium
Life span: short
Growth form: rosette-forming
Spreading: axillary bud plantlets - medium, seeds - low
Suckering: high


Foliage: round, green with sticky red tentacles
Fall colour: red to marooon
Bark: thornless orange
Flowers: purple
Flowers: tiny white flowers on long leafless stem
Bloom time: summer
Berries: red to purple, seedy
Firmness: firm
Flavor: tasteless
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: ON, QC, NS
Native to: AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS, NB, NL, YT, NT, NU, PE
Other Names: purple-flowered raspberry, virginia raspberry
Other Names: roundleaf sundew