Pinguicula ionantha
Godfrey's butterwort is a rare, federally threatened butterwort endemic to six counties of the central Florida Panhandle, growing in wet pine savannas, seepage slopes, bogs and ditches, often in shallow standing water. It forms a flat rosette up to 15 cm wide of fleshy, bright green sticky leaves and flowers pale violet to white from February to April. Grow it in full sun on a wet peat-sand mix that can sit in water, with a cool (not frozen) winter.
Where it grows wild
It grows in seepage slopes, bogs, the transition zones between flatwoods or wet prairies and cypress stringers, roadside ditches and depressions in wet pine flatwoods and wet prairies, often in shallow standing water. It can survive underwater for several days after rain. Regular fire keeps these habitats open; without prescribed fire every two to three years shrubs encroach and flowering declines.
A coastal-plain species of low, flat ground near sea level, generally under about 30 m.
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