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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pinguicula lutea
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Pinguicula lutea has essentially the same vegetative structure as P. caerulea, with the basal rosette of widely elliptical and sticky leaves being about 2-3 inches across. Thus, you must see it in bloom to tell the two apart. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
When an insect becomes stuck on a Buttersort leaf's sticky mucilage, the edge of the leaf slowly rolls over. When the insect is digested, the leaf edges unroll. Read more at the Botanical Society of America.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pinguicula lutea
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-01-002:
Pinguicula lutea
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pinguicula lutea
COMMON NAME:
Yellow Butterwort
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_pinguicula_lutea2
May Brunswick County NC
A solitary, sulfur-yellow, spurred, 1-2" flower terminates the single scape, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pinguicula lutea
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pinguicula lutea
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-01-002:
Pinguicula lutea
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pinguicula lutea
1085
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in GA, uncommon in SC, rare in NC
Look for it in pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of SC, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette
Leaves sessile
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Bisexual
Not symmetrical
5-lobed calyx (rarely 4-lobed)
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
2 stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers solitary on leafless stalks
FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p195
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p226
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p175
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p094
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p233