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Alpine butterwort
Pinguicula alpina
About
Pinguicula alpina, also known as the alpine butterwort, is a species of carnivorous plant native to high latitudes and altitudes throughout Eurasia. It is one of the most widespread Pinguicula species, being found in mountainous regions from Iceland to the Himalayas. Native to cold climates, it is a temperate species, forming prostrate rosettes of green to red leaves and white flowers in the summer and a tight hibernaculum during a period of winter dormancy in the winter. Like all members of the genus, P. alpina uses mucilaginous glands covering the surface of its summer leaves to attract, trap, and digest arthropod prey.
- Family
- Lentibulariaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pinguicula alpina
- Slug
- pinguicula-alpina
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lentibulariaceae
- Genus
- Pinguicula
- Species
- alpina
- Wikidata QID
- Q161401
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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