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Common Butterwort

Flowering Plants

Common butterwort is a small carnivorous plant found across boggy and nutrient-poor habitats of Europe, northern Asia, and North America, growing as a flat rosette of pale green, greasy-looking leaves. The leaves are coated in a sticky mucilage that traps small insects such as gnats and flies, after which the leaf edges slowly curl inward to press the prey against digestive glands. In late spring it sends up slender stalks bearing single violet flowers well above the sticky foliage, keeping its pollinating insects safely apart from its prey-catching leaves.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Carnivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Used in Traditional Medicine 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Comparison
NatureServe Rank
G5 Secure 4
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 5
Scientific Name
Pinguicula vulgaris 6
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Magnoliopsida, Taxa
Source Common Butterwort (Wikidata)

In Biome

Bog, Biomes
Source Wikipedia: Pinguicula vulgaris
Fen, Biomes
Source Wikipedia: Pinguicula vulgaris
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Found In

Austria

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Belarus

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Belgium

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Denmark

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Finland

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France

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Germany

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Hungary

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Iceland

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Ireland

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Italy

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Mongolia

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Netherlands

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North America

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Norway

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Poland

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Portugal

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Romania

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Spain

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Sweden

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Switzerland

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Ukraine

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Pinguicula vulgaris
  • diet-classification (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)
    Pinguicula vulgaris, the common butterwort, is a perennial carnivorous plant in the butterwort genus of the family Lentibulariaceae.
  • Infobox: status
    LC
  • In Biome: Bog, Description
    This butterwort grows in damp environments such as bogs and swamps, in low or subalpine elevations.
  • In Biome: Fen, Distribution
    It is generally found growing in places such as bogs, fens, alvars, and other areas with limestone bedrock and alkaline waters.
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2. Plants For A Future: Pinguicula vulgaris
Plants For A Future
  • Medicinal Uses
    It is used in the treatment of whooping cough and nervous throat irritations.
  • Habitats
    Boggy soils on wet rocks and damp places, avoiding shady places
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3. GBIF Species API
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4. NatureServe Explorer: Pinguicula vulgaris
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)
Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "G5"
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5. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Lamiales
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12396
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12396
"cites_listing":"II/III/NC","eu_listing":"B/C/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Lamiales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]
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6. Common Butterwort (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q161658 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
  • Child Taxon Of: Magnoliopsida, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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