Pinguicula alpina
A temperate butterwort of high mountains and far northern latitudes, from Scandinavia and the Alps east to Siberia, Mongolia and the Himalaya. It grows in wet, open, sunny places on neutral to alkaline ground. It spends winter as a tight resting bud (hibernaculum) but, unlike its relatives, keeps its roots. It needs a real cold winter and cool summers, and it is not an easy plant to keep for long.
Where it grows wild
Subalpine seeps, bogs, wet flushes and alpine rock meadows, usually on wet, neutral to alkaline (often limestone) soils in open, sunny spots. It is unusually drought-tolerant for a temperate butterwort. It survives winter as a bud resting on the soil surface, usually under snow.
From sea level in north-west Siberia and Scandinavia to 4100 m in Asia. The European GBIF records span 485–2360 m, with a median of about 1500 m, and the measured sites are at 1050–2640 m.
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