Pinguicula australandina
A recently described butterwort from the northern Patagonian Andes of Argentina, around Bariloche, Neuquén and Chubut. It grows high in the mountains, with cool, sunny summers, near-freezing nights, and a snowy winter.
Where it grows wild
This profile assumes it grows in wet mountain ground such as seepages, boggy flushes and wet rock near snowmelt, like other southern Andean Pinguicula. These are open sites with little tree shade.
The sites are mostly between about 1,300 and 2,050 m.
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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY 4.0 licence, unmodified.