Pinguicula heterophylla
A Mexican butterwort endemic to the mountains of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Morelos, where it grows on open, rocky, often limestone or gypsum ground in oak and pine-oak woodland and seasonally dry scrub. As its name says, its leaves change with the seasons. It grows as a carnivorous rosette in the summer rains and shrinks back through the long dry winter. Grow it bright and airy on a mineral mix, wet in summer and much drier in winter.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe open, rocky, nearly flat sites in oak woodland with pine and Arbutus on red calcareous soil, gentle slopes free of oak leaf litter, roadside banks, pine forest, and gypsum hills with rosette scrub and tropical deciduous forest. It grows on bare mineral soil and rock rather than under a closed canopy.
106 GBIF specimens carry an elevation, ranging from 650 to 3,060 m with a median of about 2,100 m, so most plants grow in cool-nighted highlands.
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