Common Butterwort, Àird Mòr Mhangarstadh, Uig, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris) in flower at Àird Mòr Mhangarstadh, Uig, Lewis. Butterwort is a carnivorous plant which has sticky leaves to catch insects. This enables it to live in nutrient-poor soild such as the peat bogs of north-western Scotland
21 June 2011
Butterwort, Fairy foxglove, Red Campion, Scottish primrose
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Products
A set of 4 greetings cards of flowers inclding Butterwort, Red campion amongst bluebells, Scottish primrose and Fairy foxglove
24 February 2016
£4.00
Butterwort, Ardnamurchan
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Ardnamurchan
Butterwort (Pinguicula sp) in Ardnamurchan. This plant has evolved to be insectivorous because the acidic soils where it is found do not provide it with enough nutrients. It excretes a sticky fluid to attract its prey then slowly curls its leaves around the insect, digesting it.
01 June 2016
Butterwort, Ardnamurchan
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Ardnamurchan
Butterwort (Pinguicula sp) in Ardnamurchan. This plant has evolved to be insectivorous because the acidic soils where it is found do not provide it with enough nutrients. It excretes a sticky fluid to attract its prey then slowly curls its leaves around the insect, digesting it.
01 June 2016
Butterwort, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
The insectivorous plant Butterwort (Pinguicula sp), which catches insects on its sticky leaves and consumes them to supplements its meagre diet on the poor acidic soils of peat moorlands.
27 June 2014
Butterwort, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
The insectivorous plant Butterwort (Pinguicula sp), which catches insects on its sticky leaves and consumes them to supplements its meagre diet on the poor acidic soils of peat moorlands.
27 June 2014
Butterwort and Sundew, Forsinard Flows
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Sutherland - Forsinard and Halladale
Butterwort (Pinguicula sp) and Sundew (Drosera sp) are both carnivorous plants which entrap insects using sticky droplets on their leaves. Thus, they make up for the lack of nutrition in peaty soils.
