Skye Flora

Pale Butterwort


Pinguicula lusitanica

 

Pinguicula lusitanica

Photo © Carl Farmer
25 Aug 2002 Scorrybreac, Isle of Skye

Occasional in boggy ground

Flower c 6 mm in diameter

Skye ID: Leaves purple-tinged, not bright yellowish green like Common Butterwort.  Flower pale mauve or whitish with yellow throat.

Other features: Spur of flower strongly curved downwards.  Plant is smaller in all parts than Common Butterwort.  Often hidden among vegetation, whereas Common Butterwort likes more space around it.

 

Pinguicula lusitanica

Photo © Carl Farmer
14 Jul 2003 Portree, Isle of Skye

  Pinguicula lusitanica

Photo © Carl Farmer
14 Jul 2003 Portree, Isle of Skye
Flower 7.5 mm across

 

Pinguicula lusitanica

Photo © Carl Farmer
25 Aug 2002 Scorrybreac, Isle of Skye
 

Rosette of five sticky leaves traps insects on which the plant feeds


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