any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects
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butterwort::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | carnivorous plant |
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The leafblade of a butterwort is smooth, rigid, and succulent, usually bright green or pinkish in colour.
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The second type of gland found on butterwort leaves are sessile glands which lie flat on the leaf surface.
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Most butterwort flowers are blue, violet or white, often suffused with a yellow, greenish or reddish tint.
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Rare plants include purple gromwell, cornish moneywort, pale butterwort, small-flowered catchfly, and yellow bartsia.
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It provides a home for the red squirrel and colonies of sundew and butterwort, two of the few carnivorous plants native to Britain.
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Hoping Mushnick will change his mind, Seymour tells him about a special plant that he crossbred from a butterwort and a Venus Flytrap.
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A fly trapped on a butterwort leaf.
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By crossing a butterwort with a Venus's-flytrap, Seymour creates a new plant type, which he calls Audrey Jr. and which, it happens, feeds on human blood.
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According to Linnaeus, this property has long been known by northern Europeans, who applied butterwort leaves to the sores of cattle to promote healing.
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The purple blossoms of butterwort tell of nitrogen-poor soil, which the plant makes up for by producing greasy, slimy leaves that trap gnats on their surfaces.
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South Uist, a real heart-tugger, was a vision of beaches and wildflowers, where the hills seemed to lean out of the landscape to get a better view of the butterwort and orchids.
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- Any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects
- The butterworts are a group of carnivorous plants comprising the genus Pinguicula. Members of this genus use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environments. ...
