Small Butterwort

Title

Small Butterwort

Artist

Paul Rebmann

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

An extreme close-up side view of the flower of a small butterwort plant at the top of the scape covered with tiny glandular trichomes. This image, made in Heart Island Conservation Area, won honorable mention in the "Florida Invertebrates and/or Wildflowers" category of the Orange Audubon Society's 2009 Kit & Sidney Chertok Nature Photography Contest.

This image has been featured in the following groups:
500 Views -1 Image a Day (10/27/2016),
Fine Art Wildflower Photography,
Just Flowers (03/05/2014),
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A frequent plant of flatwoods throughout most of Florida. The range extends through the southeastern coastal states from North Carolina to Texas, plus Oklahoma.
The butterworts have basal rosettes of small succulent leaves with an upper sticky surface and curled edges to trap insects for this carnivorous plant. Pinguicula pumila has small white, sometimes blue, violet, or pink, flowers on top of a leafless stalk, or scape, which is covered with tiny glandular trichomes. This species can be differentiated from the others of the genus in Florida by not having a palate that extends beyond the throat of the corolla, as well as the small size of the flower, less than 1.8 cm ( ~3/4 in.) in length, including the spur. Small butterworts bloom mostly in winter and spring.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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March 4th, 2014

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