native plants

Jim in LPR (Jim.Lucke@pp.inet.fi)
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:04:25 +0300

I looked in my "native plants of Finland" guide and found:

Drosera rotundifolia, anglica, and intermedia;

Pinguicula vulgaris, alpina, and villosa

Utricularia vulgaris, intermedia, and minor.

Funny thing is, the descriptions don't even mention that they eat bugs.
Well, one of them mentions that the leaves have "trap hairs", but has no
more to say on it.

Is it actually possible to pull on a pair of boots and head out to the
marshes and find these? I've been out looking for berries and mushrooms, and
surely would at least recognize drosera.

To ask another way, how rare are these plants? Do you have to know exactly
where to go, or can you just wander around and you'll come across one?

Jim in Finland