Scientific name: Pinguicula vulgaris L.
Common name: Common Butterwort
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 18 cm high.
Stems: Erect.
Leaves: In a basal rosette, stalkless, broadly oblong, untoothed, with incurved leaf margins; thick and very glandular, 2-5 cm long.
Flowers: Violet, zygomorphic, 10 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 narrow, flat and not overlapping; stamens 2, attached to the corolla tube; style absent or very short, ovary 1-celled.
Fruits: A many seeded capsule.
Habitat: Bogs, fens, wet rocks, mountain heaths.Distribution: Frequent to rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No