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Butterworts
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, 12 are native to Europe, 9 to North America, and some to northern Asia. The largest number of species is in South and Central America.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Pinguicula
subgenusPinguicula
Temnoceras
subgenusTemnoceras
Isoloba
subgenusIsoloba
Pinguicula simulans
speciesPinguicula simulans
Pinguicula tlahuica
speciesPinguicula tlahuica
Pinguicula brendae
speciesPinguicula brendae
Pinguicula olmeca
speciesPinguicula olmeca
Pinguicula bustamanta
speciesPinguicula bustamanta
Pinguicula lavalvae
speciesPinguicula lavalvae
Pinguicula × hybrida
hybridPinguicula × hybrida
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 72300.