Pinguicula villosa
The smallest butterwort, a circumboreal species of Sphagnum bogs and muskeg across northern Eurasia and North America. It grows on moss hummocks with only two to four tiny, hairy-stalked leaves and single pale violet flowers 6–9 mm long, and winters as a small resting bud. It is notoriously hard to keep in cultivation.
Where it grows wild
Sphagnum bogs, hummocks and muskeg around pools and creeks, mainly in the timberline zone, often with Sphagnum fuscum and Drosera rotundifolia. The rolled leaf edges keep the surrounding moss off the glands, and plants are often overgrown by Sphagnum by late summer.
Recorded elevations are 23–1100 m, median 760 m; it is a lowland to subalpine species depending on latitude.
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