On our come-and-find WFS meeting in Assynt we discovered this much smaller and rarer cousin of the Pinguicula vulgaris (Common Butterwort) by accident close to a small stream. Pinguicula lusitanica (Pale Butterwort) is also insectivorous but a much smaller plant with glandular hairs on the calyx and much smaller flowers.

This plant loves the west - of Ireland, of Cornwall and of Northern scotland where it is plentiful. There is virtually none to be found in the east.