Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co.Cork 
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Large-flowered Butterwort Violet-blue flowers, white, purple-streaked throat patch. Corolla 20-25mm. Lower lip with broad, overlapping lobes, wavy-edged. Slender, nearly straight spur. Insectivore, sticky leaves trap insects, digested to obtain vital nutrients. Height: Flower stems 7-13cm. Part of Lusitanian Flora Heaths, bogs, fens. SW Ireland, frequent in Cork, Kerry, rare in Limerick, Clare. Similar: Common Butterwort, P. vulgaris. 
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Photographs above: County Kerry.
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