Pinguicula grandiflora

Scientific name: Pinguicula grandiflora Lam.
Common name: Large-flowered Butterwort

Description
Habit: Perennial, to 13 cm high.
Stems: Flowering stems erect.
Leaves: In a basal rosette, stalkless, broadly oblong, untoothed, with incurved leaf margins; thick and very glandular, 2-7 cm long.
Flowers: Violet, zygomorphic, 20-25 mm across, solitary on long leafless flower stalks; calyx fused, 2-lipped, upper lip 3-lobed, lower lip 2-lobed; corolla united, 2-lipped, corolla tube short and broad with a spur at the base, the spur slender and straight, tube open at the mouth, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed and longer, its lobes overlapping with wavy margins; stamens 2, attached to the corolla tube; style absent or very short, ovary 1-celled.
Fruits: A many seeded capsule, nearly globular.

Habitat: Bogs, fens, wet rocks and mountain heaths.Distribution: Rare.

Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: Yes


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