Pinguicula moranensis
The most common and widespread Mexican butterwort. It grows on moist, shady slopes, gullies, road cuts and mossy rocks in oak, pine-oak and fir forest, mostly between about 2000 and 2900 m. It alternates between a summer rosette of large sticky carnivorous leaves in the wet season and a tight, succulent, non-carnivorous winter rosette through the dry season. The dry, cool winter rest is the main thing to copy at home.
Where it grows wild
A rosette-forming terrestrial or rock-dwelling plant on humid, shady slopes by streams, in gullies, on road cuts and on mossy rock faces. It grows in thin loamy soil between rocks, among mosses and ferns, and in misty oak, pine-oak and Abies (oyamel) forest, occasionally down into wet ravines of tropical deciduous forest. Var. moranensis is usually on limestone; var. neovolcanica on the volcanic rocks of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.
Literature gives about 2000–2900 m for most populations, with outliers from roughly 800 m to 3200–3300 m. The few measured records with elevations (1887–2542 m, median 2138 m) sit in the core of that band.
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