OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pinguicula caerulea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

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

Pinguicula caerulea

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

Pinguicula caerulea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-01-003:

Pinguicula caerulea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

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

Pinguicula caerulea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux

Pinguicula elatior

 

COMMON NAME:
Blue Butterwort


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image of Pinguicula caerulea, Blue Butterwort

JK Marlow    jkm0505s_19

May    Williamsburg County    SC

image of Pinguicula caerulea, Blue Butterwort

JK Marlow    jkm0505s_21

May    Williamsburg County    SC

Expanded upper portion of corolla markedly darker along the veins, per Weakley's Flora.

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pinguicula caerulea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-01-003:
Pinguicula caerulea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux
Pinguicula elatior

 

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1939

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 NC and SC, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring
Blue
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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