Pinguicula lutea

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Pinguicula lutea
Pinguicula lutea BM.JPG
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.

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. <ref name= "PanFlora" PanFlora Author: Gil Nelson URL: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Date Accessed: 5/24/18 </ref>

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

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References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 USDA Plant Database https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PECA
  2. Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.