Pinguicula antarctica
The southernmost butterwort, a small perennial with yellowish-green sticky rosettes from peat bogs, wet banks and humid forest clearings in Patagonian Chile and Argentina, south to Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn. It is homophyllous (it keeps the same kind of leaves all year) and needs cool, constantly moist conditions. It is difficult in warm climates, and summer heat is the usual cause of loss.
Where it grows wild
Peat bogs, shrubby subantarctic peatland, peaty soil over rock outcrops, very humid and shady ravines, wet gravel by lakes, and open ground above the treeline in the southern Andes. It grows in cool temperate rainforest country with year-round rain.
From near sea level in the Magallanes and Cape Horn archipelagos to the subalpine zone above the treeline further north.
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