Pinguicula primuliflora
A warm-temperate butterwort from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States, forming rosettes of sticky green leaves and producing white-to-pink flowers with a yellow throat, usually the first of the region's butterworts to bloom in spring. It grows in constantly wet ground along streams and seeps and is unusual in producing plantlets at its leaf tips, which makes it vigorous and easy in cultivation. It stays green all year and needs only a cool winter slowdown, not a hard dormancy.
Where it grows wild
It grows in very wet, acidic, nutrient-poor places: sphagnum-covered streamside bogs, seepage slopes with sandy soil under sweetbay magnolia, shaded stream banks and narrow wet drains through pine and swamp forest, and the edges of small ponds. It tolerates periodic flooding and is often partly shaded by streamside trees and shrubs.
Recorded from 24 m to 119 m, median 53 m (9 records): low coastal-plain country.
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