With the humdrummery of adulting, we all need reminders of things that spark childlike delight. Chances are you haven't thought about carnivorous plants since elementary school. Adorably nicknamed ...

Companion volume to: Pinguicula of the temperate north / Aymeric Roccia [and eight others] ; edited by Alastair S. Robinson. Poole, Dorset, England : Redfern Natural History Productions, [2016].

Butterworts first show up in a herbal in the 15th century. The genus name Pinguicula is derived from the Latin word pinguis, meaning fat or oily, an adjective first applied to butterworts by Gesner in ...

While exploring an isolated lagoon in the mountains of Ecuador, researchers found several colorful plants — one of which was a new species. The joint team of Ecuadorian, U.S. and German researchers ...

A team of botanists from Ecuador, Germany, and the United States has described two new species of carnivorous plants with striking appearance. They are part of the butterworts (genus Pinguicula), a ...

Pinguicula crystallina, the only carnivorous plant endemic to Cyprus, is the agriculture ministry’s plant of the month for August. Each month, the ministry highlights an endemic plant as part of an ...