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Section Pinguicula
Pinguicula
Pinguicula, commonly known as the butterworts, is a genus of carnivorous plants that use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environment. Of the roughly 80 currently known species, 13 are native to Europe, 9 to North America, and some to northern Asia. The largest number of species is in South and Central America.
26 branches of this group, most-observed first
Common Butterwort
speciesPinguicula vulgaris
Large-flowered Butterwort
speciesPinguicula grandiflora
horned butterwort
speciesPinguicula macroceras
Southern Butterwort
speciesPinguicula leptoceras
Pinguicula longifolia
speciesPinguicula longifolia
Corsican Butterwort
speciesPinguicula corsica
Pinguicula balcanica
speciesPinguicula balcanica
Pinguicula vallisneriifolia
speciesPinguicula vallisneriifolia
Pinguicula arvetii
speciesPinguicula arvetii
Pinguicula dertosensis
speciesPinguicula dertosensis
Pinguicula nevadensis
speciesPinguicula nevadensis
Pinguicula caussensis
speciesPinguicula caussensis
Pinguicula mundi
speciesPinguicula mundi
Pinguicula casperiana
speciesPinguicula casperiana
Pinguicula christinae
speciesPinguicula christinae
Pinguicula reichenbachiana
speciesPinguicula reichenbachiana
Pinguicula mariae
speciesPinguicula mariae
Pinguicula poldinii
speciesPinguicula poldinii
Pinguicula apuana
speciesPinguicula apuana
Pinguicula × scullyi
hybridPinguicula × scullyi
Pinguicula vallis-regiae
speciesPinguicula vallis-regiae
Pinguicula fiorii
speciesPinguicula fiorii
Pinguicula sehuensis
speciesPinguicula sehuensis
Pinguicula tejedensis
speciesPinguicula tejedensis
Pinguicula fontiqueriana
speciesPinguicula fontiqueriana
Pinguicula lattanziae
speciesPinguicula lattanziae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1044499.