Pinguicula orchidioides
A Mexican butterwort from Oaxaca and Guerrero and the highlands of Guatemala, growing on humid slopes and banks in pine-oak woodland at about 2000–2700 m. It makes sticky carnivorous rosettes up to 10 cm across in the wet summer and a small, fleshy, non-carnivorous winter rosette in the dry season. Unusually for an American butterwort, it spreads by whip-like stolons up to 8 cm long.
Where it grows wild
Humid hillsides, slopes and embankments in pine-oak woodland with Arbutus, Arctostaphylos and Clethra, on reddish-brown to brown clay or sandy-clay soils. It forms clumps through stolons.
2000–2700 m, occasionally to 3000 m. The recorded elevations (median 2097 m, up to 2874 m) agree; the 74 m minimum is almost certainly an error.
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