Some more P. vulgaris pictures from the summer

[johns]

In case there's anybody here who hasn't yet gotten enough of pictures of the common butterwort, here are some taken in the Oslo forest this summer.

I found them growing mainly on the side of dirt roads and wet parts of trails. The last group of pictures is from a flat, vegetation-free area below a dam.

It's actually easier to find sundews (in particular the common sundew), as the numerous nutrient-poor bogs provide a natural home for them. The butterworts seem far less at home; to ramble on for a bit, what puzzles me is that there are seemingly no natural butterwort habitats to be found around here.

28, 29 June:

2 july:

22 july:

[Carlos Rohrbacher]

Beauty pings, thanks for sharing (here don't have this genus to see in habitat )!

[Daniel O.]

Nice pictures.

The soil seems to be very dry.

At what altitude are they growing there?

Best regards,

Dani

[johns]

The soil can indeed be drier than what one would expect. But the habitat was always slightly moist, for example where I found them growing along dirt roads, wet ditches provided extra moisture.

The altitude was about 200 meters above sea level.