Violet Butterwort
Pinguicula ionantha
Found in pond margins, bogs, flatwoods, cypress/pine seepage ecotones. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you
Native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?
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At a glance
Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom
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Recorded in 6 Florida counties.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Places where groundwater keeps the soil or rock wet, such as seepage slopes and spring runs.
Also found with this plant
Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 220 animals.
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Reddish EgretEgretta rufescens
- RedheadAythya americana
Who uses this plant?
No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Plant details
- Family
- Lentibulariaceae
Conservation status
| Florida rank | S2 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| FL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- Atlas of Florida Plants
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition
- NatureServe Explorer
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications

























