Pinguicula vulgaris

Pinguicula vulgaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lentibulariaceae
Genus:	Pinguicula
Species:	P. vulgaris
Binomial name
Pinguicula vulgaris L.

Whole plant, Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland and Labrador

Pinguicula vulgaris near Mývatn, northern Iceland

Pinguicula vulgaris, the Common butterwort, is a perennial carnivorous plant in the Lentibulariaceae family. It grows to a height of 3–16 cm, and is topped with a purple, and occasionally white, flower that is 15 mm or longer, and shaped like a funnel. This butterwort grows in damp environs such as bogs and swamps, in low or subalpine elevations.^[1] It has a generally circumboreal distribution, being native to almost every country in Europe as well as Russia, Canada, and the United States. Being native to environments with cold winters, they produce a winter-resting bud (hibernacula) during the winter.

References

1. ^ Plants of the Pacific Northwest. Lone Pine Publishing, 1994. p. 351

External links

• USDA Plants Profile
• Forest Service Ecology