Butterwort ID
Hi everyone! I’m a new plant parent and would love some help properly ID’ing this butterwort :) The only info I have is that it was grown in Florida.
I have it listed as a common butterwort, but I’m not 100% sure about it.
Here’s my little guy Oscar
#CarnivorousPlants
I have it listed as a common butterwort, but I’m not 100% sure about it.
Here’s my little guy Oscar
#CarnivorousPlants
1ft to light, indirect
3” pot with drainage
Last watered 5 months ago
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@TrueCounciltree Hi Hannah, 👋 it's a Carnivorous plant called a Pinguicula or a Ping for short. Bottom water it with reverse osmosis water and keep the soil moist and keep it under a grow light. It's leaves are sticky trapping fungus gnats and even flies!
Hello there, sadly I cannot tell you much about the Naming ID of the plant. But I can share the care for the plant.
It likes to keep its toes (roots) wet in distilled water as regular tap water has far too many metals in it, deadly for carnivorous plants. So you'd want to have a saucer filled with distilled water all the time. In case the water dries out for a day or two, it should be okay, but once noticed, refilled. The plant loves the light but not the direct sunlight.
The plant just like the Venus trap has a dormancy period in winter months that is stimulated by shorted light periods and colder weather. All the best with your baby Butterwort or Pinguicula plant.
It likes to keep its toes (roots) wet in distilled water as regular tap water has far too many metals in it, deadly for carnivorous plants. So you'd want to have a saucer filled with distilled water all the time. In case the water dries out for a day or two, it should be okay, but once noticed, refilled. The plant loves the light but not the direct sunlight.
The plant just like the Venus trap has a dormancy period in winter months that is stimulated by shorted light periods and colder weather. All the best with your baby Butterwort or Pinguicula plant.
While im not great at ID'ing pinguicula, I do have a question that could help. When you say that the seller mentioned it was grown in Florida, did they mean it is a Florida native plant? We have wild pinguicula here that are different from the normally sold pinguicula. They're warm-temperate instead of tropical. I'll throw out some names for some of FL's warm temperate ones if it might help: Pinguicula primuliflora,
Pinguicula pumila,
Pinguicula planifolia,
Pinguicula ionantha,
Pinguicula caerulea,
Pinguicula lutea.
Pinguicula pumila,
Pinguicula planifolia,
Pinguicula ionantha,
Pinguicula caerulea,
Pinguicula lutea.