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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pinguicula lutea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pinguicula lutea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Pinguicula lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Pinguicula lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-01-002:

Pinguicula lutea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Pinguicula lutea

 

COMMON NAME:
Yellow Butterwort


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image of Pinguicula lutea, Yellow Butterwort

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_pinguicula_lutea2

May    Brunswick County    NC

A solitary, sulfur-yellow, spurred, 1-2" flower terminates the single scape, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pinguicula lutea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pinguicula lutea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pinguicula lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Pinguicula lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-01-002:
Pinguicula lutea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pinguicula lutea

 

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1085

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of SC, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC, rare in NC

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Winter/SpringFall
Yellow
Not symmetrical
5-lobed calyx (rarely 4-lobed)
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
2 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers solitary on leafless stalks

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

 

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