Pinguicula pumila
The smallest butterwort of the south-eastern United States, with rosettes rarely more than 2 cm across and white to pale violet flowers on stalks up to 15 to 20 cm. It grows in wet, sandy, nutrient-poor soil in longleaf pine flatwoods, savannas and seepage slopes of the coastal plain, and is short-lived, often behaving as an annual. Grow it bright, moist and warm-temperate, and keep it going from seed.
Where it grows wild
Mesic to wet pine flatwoods and savannas, seepage slopes, wet roadside ditches and damp trail margins, with longleaf pine, Sarracenia, gallberry and saw palmetto. The soil is acidic, sandy and poor, and the plants sit in open ground among low grasses and sedges that shade them only lightly.
Coastal plain lowlands, about 5 to 300 m, mostly below 100 m.
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