General: Insect-eating perennial herb from a fibrous root; stems erect, simple, solitary to few, 2-12 cm tall, densely, long glandular-hairy, the hairs club-shaped.
Leaves: Basal leaves several, simple, entire, fleshy, oblanceolate, 0.4-1.5 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, glabrous below, glabrous or slimy-glandular above (where small insects are digested), margins not rolled under; stem leaves lacking.
Flowers: Inflorescence of single flowers; corollas funnel-like, lavender-blue, 6-10 mm long, with a spur, white hairs in the throat, the lobes of the lower lip oblong; calyces 5-lobed, 1-2 mm long.
1. Leaves solitary or 2; scapes glandular long-hairy; corollas pale bluish-violet, less than 10 mm long..............................Pinguicula villosa
1. Leaves 5-7; scapes glabrous or obscurely glandular; corolla dark bluish-violet, more than 1.5 mm long................................Pinguicula vulgaris
2. Corola lobes of the lower lip oblong to nearly egg-shaped, more or less covering each other, or at least touching; lower lip of the calyces split up to half their length................ssp. macrocerus
2. Corolla lobes of the lower lip oblong, not covering or touching each other; lower lip of the calyces split up to 2/3 of their length.......................ssp. vulgaris
Habitat / Range
Bogs and ponds (usually in Sphagnum) in the lowland and montane zones; rare in NW, NE and WC BC and on the Queen Charlotte Islands; circumboreal, N to AK, YT and NT and E to Labr.; Eurasia.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
