Scientific name: Pinguicula lusitanica L.
Common name: Pale Butterwort
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 12 cm high.
Stems: Erect.
Leaves: In a basal rosette, stalkless, 1.5-2 cm long, broadly oblong, untoothed, with incurved leaf margins; thick and very glandular.
Flowers: Very pale lilac / pink often tinged with yellow in the centre, zygomorphic, 5-7 mm across, solitary on long leafless flower stalks; calyx fused, 2-lipped, upper lip 3-lobed, lower lip 2-lobed; corolla united, with 5 nearly equal, short and blunt lobes, corolla tube short and broad with a spur at the base, the spur short, blunt and curved downwards, tube open at the mouth; stamens 2, attached to the corolla tube; style absent or very short, ovary 1-celled.
Fruits: A many seeded capsule.
Habitat: Bogs, flushes, near mountain streams.Distribution: Frequent to rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No