Species: Pinguicula vulgaris
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Butterwort is a small insectivorous plant. It has a small basal rosette of bright green to yellow-green, narrow tongue-shaped leaves that are covered with sticky glands that give it a shiny, waxy appearance. The margins of the leaves curl inward as insects are trapped and digested. One to nine flower stalks grow up to 6 inches high from the basal rosette and are topped by a single, tubular, violet flower. The flower has 5 petals in two lips and they are white and hairy at the base. The bottom of the flower ends in a long spur. In the winter the leaves die back to form a bulblike winter bud or hibernacula that has smaller daughter buds that ring the main winter bud. These then germinate in the spring to grow more plants.
Source: Encyclopedia of Life
Classification
Dicotyledoneae
Scrophulariales
Lentibulariaceae
Pinguicula
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Classification
Ecology and Life History
Butterwort is a small insectivorous plant. It has a small basal rosette of bright green to yellow-green, narrow tongue-shaped leaves that are covered with sticky glands that give it a shiny, waxy appearance. The margins of the leaves curl inward as insects are trapped and digested. One to nine flower stalks grow up to 6 inches high from the basal rosette and are topped by a single, tubular, violet flower. The flower has 5 petals in two lips and they are white and hairy at the base. The bottom of the flower ends in a long spur. In the winter the leaves die back to form a bulblike winter bud or hibernacula that has smaller daughter buds that ring the main winter bud. These then germinate in the spring to grow more plants.
Source: Encyclopedia of Life