Pinguicula lusitanica
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Lentibulariaceae›Pinguicula›Pinguicula lusitanica
Ecology
An insectivorous perennial herb which retains its insect-trapping leaves through the winter. It grows on damp bare peat and at the bases of grass, rush or sedge tussocks beside moorland rills, drainage ditches on former bogs, acidic flushes and wet heaths, often in places trampled by livestock or deer. 0-490 m (Dartmoor, S. Devon, and the Mourne Mountains, Co. Down).
Status
Native
Trends
P. lusitanica is an easily overlooked species which has declined in some areas since the 1962 Atlas, largely through loss of habitat, changes in management and scrub encroachment.
World Distribution
Oceanic Temperate element.
© G. Toone, IWNHAS
Bohemia bog
© G. Toone, IWNHAS
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© M. Cotterill, IWNHAS
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© M. Cotterill, IWNHAS
Broad Habitats
Light (Ellenberg): 8
Moisture (Ellenberg): 8
Reaction (Ellenberg): 4
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 2
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.9
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 13.7
Annual Precipitation (mm): 1475
Height (cm): 3
Perennation - primary
Perennial
Life Form - primary
Hemicryptophyte
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Little or no vegetative spread
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 500
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 309
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 0
Atlas Change Index: -0.83
Weighted Changed Factor: 23
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
31
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000004182