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Lentibulariaceae
Pinguicula

not marked as a favorite taxon Pinguicula lutea Walter. Common name: Yellow Butterwort. Phenology: (Late Dec-) Feb-May. Habitat: Pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of SC. Distribution: Se. NC (Pender and New Hanover counties) south to s. FL, west to e. LA.

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Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Synonymy ⓘ: = Fl6, GW2, K4, RAB, S, WH3, Schnell (2002b). Basionym: Pinguicula lutea Walter 1788

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL

Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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image #1 of Pinguicula lutea© Alan Cressler: Pinguicula lutea, C.L. Dees Wildlife Trail, Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge, Jackson County, Mississippi 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Pinguicula lutea© Alan Cressler: Pinguicula lutea, Wade Tract Preserve, Arcadia Plantation, Thomas County, Georgia 3 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Pinguicula lutea© Alan Cressler: Pinguicula lutea, Francis Marion National Forest, Berkeley County, South Carolina 2 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Pinguicula lutea© Jay Horn source | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Pinguicula lutea© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Pinguicula lutea© Floyd A. Griffith | Original Image ⭷
image #7 of Pinguicula lutea© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Pinguicula lutea© J.W. Hardin | Original Image ⭷

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NCBG trait

Intro: Scapose, carnivorous perennial of pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of SC.

Stems: Stem a single, hairy flowering scape arising from the basal rosette of leaves.

Leaves: Leaves basal, in a rosette about 6 in. wide, oval or oblong with curled up margins, somewhat fleshy, yellowish-green and oily feeling.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers held singly at top of scape, mostly at a right-angle to scape. Flowers yellow, about 1 in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, tubular, with 5 spreading, notched corolla lobes, a hairy lump on inside bottom of the throat and a backward-pointing spur.

Fruits:

Comments: Insects are trapped on the upper surface of leaves, which secrete a musty-smelling mucilage and digestive fluids.

Height: to 10 in.

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description: Scapose, carnivorous perennial of pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of SC.

stems: Stem a single, hairy flowering scape arising from the basal rosette of leaves.

leaves: Leaves basal, in a rosette about 6 in. wide, oval or oblong with curled up margins, somewhat fleshy, yellowish-green and oily feeling.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers held singly at top of scape, mostly at a right-angle to scape. Flowers yellow, about 1 in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, tubular, with 5 spreading, notched corolla lobes, a hairy lump on inside bottom of the throat and a backward-pointing spur.

fruits:

comments: Insects are trapped on the upper surface of leaves, which secrete a musty-smelling mucilage and digestive fluids.

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native range: southeastern United States



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