Pinguicula lusitanica
A tiny butterwort with rosettes of 3-5 cm and small pale pink, yellow-throated flowers, found in acidic bogs, wet heath and flushes along the Atlantic fringe of Europe from western Scotland and Ireland to Iberia and Morocco. Unlike other European temperate butterworts it forms no winter bud and keeps growing all year. It is short-lived and self-pollinates freely, so in cultivation it persists as a self-sowing colony in a wet, sunny tray.
Where it grows wild
Acidic peat bogs, wet heath, fens, flushes and marshy seepages, often on bare wet peat or among sphagnum and short sedges, usually in the open or with low heath around it.
Mostly lowland and coastal, from near sea level to low hills; wild records rarely carry elevations.
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