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I like hiking, and I've always got my camera with me. I choose my destinations carefully in order to meet rare plants in their natural habitat. Pinguicula vulgaris is actually a quite common butterwort, if you know where to find them. Here's some pics from my last trip , enjoy!

The panorama of the Beskid Wyspowy mountains, southern Poland. A beautiful place to hike with a flora rich in rare species


Inflorescence of a P. vulgaris:


They are very striking plants:


Size of an adult plant:


Closeup


The plants grow at 1100m above the sea level, on a wet, muddy grassland

Dactylorhiza maculata, a wild orchid (quite common plant)




And the lesser-butterfly orchid, Platanthera bifolia

Awesome photos Peter! I too do a lot of hiking and now that I live somewhere that there are native CPs in the wild, I've been on the lookout for them.

The area that you live in is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing those photos with us and giving us an idea of what southern Poland looks like. That's an area of the world I've never been to, but it looks incredibly gorgeous!

wow that place looks amazing!! VERY nice pics wow i would love to visit that place some day...

looks like a good place to find come cp

Ooh, thanks for sharing! I'd look for a few myself ( P. vulgaris) if they didn't live about 1000 km from where I am. http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin ... uicula.htm

Also I heard of a few populations in the Gaspesie area, but that's just as far away

Haha I lived in Quebec for 10 years, was born there and never seen them. I didn't know they grow there. I've only seen the S. purpurea in the wild in these parts