Pinguicula moranensis Kunth

Pinguicula moranensis is a carnivorous butterwort from the mountains of central and southern Mexico, with outlying populations in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, where it grows on shaded slopes, gully walls, and mossy rocks beside streams. It forms a flat rosette of pale green leaves, up to about ten centimetres across, whose upper surface glistens with sticky digestive glands that trap small flying insects. The species is heterophyllous: in summer it carries broad, soft, carnivorous leaves, but as the dry season approaches it shrinks into a tight winter rosette of small, fleshy, non-glandular leaves that look more like a tiny succulent. Tall, slender stalks rise above the rosette twice a year, each bearing a single pink, violet, or magenta flower with a long backward spur. It does well in a bright, humid terrarium so long as the substrate is poor and mineral-rich rather than peaty alone, and the winter rosette is allowed to dry between waterings.