Yellow Butterwort
Pinguicula lutea
The showiest of the native butterworts, with bright yellow flowers held well above a sticky ground-hugging rosette. A pine flatwoods plant of the Southeast that stays in leaf year round in mild winters.
- Family
- Lentibulariaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.5–1.2 ft
- Spacing
- 0.3–0.6 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- February, March, April, May
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- rain garden
- Native states
- AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC