Definition of Butterworts. Meaning of Butterworts. Synonyms of Butterworts

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Definition of Butterworts

Butterwort
Butterwort But"ter*wort`, n. (Bot.) A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

Meaning of Butterworts from wikipedia

- native butterworts. Butterworts probably originated in Central America, as this is the center of Pinguicula diversityroughly 50% of butterwort species...
- States. The typical variety forms a white flower in blooming. Like other butterworts, it has sticky adhesive leaves that attract, capture and digest arthropod...
- Pinguicula vulgaris, the common butterwort, is a perennial carnivorous plant in the butterwort genus of the family Lentibulariaceae. It grows to a height...
- Pinguicula grandiflora, commonly known as the large-flowered butterwort, is a temperate insectivorous plant in the Lentibulariaceae family. One distinguishing...
- also in some flowering plants such as pygmy sundews and some species of butterworts.[page needed] Vascular plants have many other methods of a****ual reproduction...
- is native to Eurasia. Common names include bur buttercup and curveseed butterwort. It is very small, usually only about an inch or two tall, but potentially...
- flowers on the ends of stalks about 6-8 inches (150–200 mm) high. Like all butterworts, the flowers are zygomorphic, and have a spur extending from the back...
- The genus Pinguicula contains the 83 species of butterworts, belonging to the bladderwort family (Lentibulariaceae). It has a natural distribution across...
- purple (and sometimes pinkish or white) flower in blooming. Like other butterworts, it has sticky adhesive leaves that attract, capture and digest arthropod...
- Pinguicula lusitanica, commonly known as the pale butterwort, is a small butterwort that grows wild in acidic peat bog areas along coastal atlantic western...