Family | LENTIBULARIACEAE |
Genus species | Pinguicula alpina L. |
Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 17 (1753) |
Native Range | Subarctic & Subalpine Europe to Siberia, Himalaya to c. China |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | bogs, marshes |
Description | leaves elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, to 45mm long, with revolute margins, flowers 15mm long, lower lip yellow variegate |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | very moist to boggy, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, sandy soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in winter, uncovered, moist, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in early spring; gemmae on peat |
Synonyms | Pinguicula alba Kuhl ex Hoppe Pinguicula albiflora var. villosa St.-Lag. Pinguicula alpestris Pers. Pinguicula alpina var. bimaculata Wahlenb. Pinguicula alpina var. flavescens (Flörke ex Hoppe) Steud. & Hoschst. Pinguicula alpina var. gavei (Beauverd) Rouy Pinguicula alpina ssp. gavei Beuaverd Pinguicula alpina var. lemaniana Beauverd Pinguicula alpina var. lenderi Beauverd Pinguicula alpina var. villosa Beuaverd Pinguicula auricolor Arv.Touv. Pinguicula brachyloba Schult. Pinguicula flavescens Floerke ex Hoppe Pinguicula gelida Schur Pinguicula pallida Turcz. Pinguicula purpurea Willd. |
Territory | 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, HUN Hungary, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (BLT Baltic States, RUN North European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal, WHM West Himalaya) 41 Indo-China (MYA Myanmar) |