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Pale Butterwort

Pinguicula lusitanica

809 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) gogol, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 218, February 161, March 253, April 398, May 573, June 625, July 669, August 575, September 422, October 315, November 172, December 135.
United States4,519
Alaska4,517
Spain158
Portugal155
United Kingdom125
Galicia84
France84
England59
Scotland56
COIMBRA56

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.From its classification

Group and habits

  • Carnivorous plantDescends from a plant lineage whose members are carnivorous plants.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybladderwort family · Lentibulariaceae
GenusButterworts · Pinguicula

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Pale Butterwort with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.