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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pinguicula pumila
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Each leaf in Small Butterwort's basal rosette is barely 1/2-inch long or slightly longer, such that the rosette diameter is usually just 1-1.5 inches across, barely the size of a nickel or a quarter. 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 pumila
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-01-001:
Pinguicula pumila
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pinguicula pumila
COMMON NAME:
Small Butterwort
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pinguicula pumila
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pinguicula pumila
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-01-001:
Pinguicula pumila
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pinguicula pumila
2852
Forb
Annual/Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon in GA & SC Coastal Plain, rare in NC
Look for it in pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, 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
Blue
Bisexual
Not symmetrical
5-lobed calyx (rarely 4-lobed)
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
2 stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p090
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p082
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p232