Pinguicula lutea
Common name: yellow butterwort [1]
| Pinguicula lutea | |
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| Photo by John B hosted at Bluemelon.com/poaceae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida - Dicots |
| Order: | Schrophulariales |
| Family: | Lentibulariaceae |
| Genus: | Pinguicula |
| Species: | P. lutea |
| Binomial name | |
| Pinguicula lutea Walter | |
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| Natural range of Pinguicula lutea from USDA NRCS Plants Database. | |
Contents
Taxonomic Notes
Synonyms: none
Varieties: none
Description
P. lutea is a perennial forb/herb of the Lentibulariaceae family native to North America. [1]
Distribution
P. lutea can be found along the southeastern coast of the United States from Louisiana to North Carolina. [1]
Ecology
Habitat
P. lutea can be found in 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. [2]
Phenology
P. lutea flowers January-May. [3] Basal rosette, lvs yellowish-green, curling upward at tips (tips appear acuminate); clammy pubescent; flr stem to 25 cm long; corolla 2.5-3.5 wide, yellow, not veined [4]
Conservation and Management
P. lutea is listed as threatened by the Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Division of Plant Industry. [1]
Cultivation and restoration
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References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 USDA Plant Database https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PECA
- ↑ Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
- ↑ PanFlora Author: Gil Nelson URL: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Date Accessed: 5/24/18
- ↑ Coile, N. C. (2000). Notes on Florida �s Regulated Plant Index (Rule 5B-40), Botany Contribution No. 38, 3nd edition. Gainesville, Florida, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry.
