(Creeping Charlie)

Both charming and sprawling, creeping Charlie's small, crinkly foliage add a pretty flair to tropical gardens and houseplant collections. A low, trailing or creeping herbaceous perennial that is not tolerant of freezing temperatures, it is native to tropical South America and the West Indies.

Each round to oval leaf is a bright to medium glossy green with small scalloped edges. The blade has depressed veins that creates a quilted or crinkled texture. When temperatures are warm, small whitish...

(Anise Burnet Saxifrage)

The sweet, flavorful seeds and leaves of anise have added delight to gardens and foodstuffs for thousands of years. A heat-loving annual herb, it is native from Russia and central Europe to Egypt.

Clumps of attractive, bright green, oval basal leaves give rise in summer to upright knee-high stems furnished with lacy, finely divided foliage. The leaves have a refreshing licorice scent. Flat heads of tiny white starry flowers appear at the stem tips from mid to late summer. The flowers attract...

(Aphrodite Butterwort, Butterwort)

A hybrid of two Mexican species, this tender insectivorous perennial is grown for its showy, relatively large flowers and its long narrow leaves.

In spring and summer this hybrid butterwort bears rosettes of fleshy, arching, strap-shaped leaves with down-curled edges. The pale green leaves glisten with droplet-producing, insect-snaring hairs. The leaf margins develop maroon tints in bright sun. In fall, plants die back to a winter rosette of smaller, non-glandular leaves. Spurred, two-lipped,...

(Ayautla Butterwort, Butterwort)

This tender tropical perennial is grown for its showy flowers and its curious rosettes of bug-trapping leaves. It may be synonymous with Pinguicula gigantea.

In spring and summer this butterwort produces rosettes of fleshy, elliptical, yellow-green leaves that glisten with droplet-producing, insect-snaring hairs. In contrast to most other butterworts, the trapping hairs and associated meat-digesting glands occur on both sides of the leaves rather than just their upper surface. In fall,...

(Butterwort, Down Under Butterwort)

A hybrid of two Mexican species, this tender perennial is grown for its showy flowers and its colorful rosettes of insect-trapping leaves.

This butterwort produces rosettes of narrow, fleshy, purplish-green leaves that glisten with droplet-producing, insect-snaring hairs. Bright light intensifies their purple tinting. Two-lipped, five-lobed, violet-like flowers are borne singly on short leafless stems from early spring to late winter, and sometimes at other seasons. The mauve flowers have a...

(Butterwort, Enigma Butterwort)

Probably a hybrid of the Mexican native Pinguicula cyclosecta, this small, tender perennial is grown for its showy flowers and its curious insect-trapping leaves.

In spring and summer this hybrid butterwort bears rosettes of fleshy, spoon-shaped, light-green leaves that glisten with droplet-producing, insect-snaring hairs. The leaf margins roll inward to further ensnare trapped insects, which are digested by glands on the leaf surface. In fall, plants may die back to a winter rosette...

(Butterwort, Florian Butterwort)

A hybrid of two Mexican species, this small, tender perennial is grown for its charming violet-like flowers and its fleshy insect-trapping leaves.

In spring and summer this hybrid butterwort bears rosettes of cupped, spoon-shaped, ghostly pale green leaves that glisten with droplet-producing, insect-snaring glands. The leaves become red- or purple-tinted in bright light. In fall, plants die back to a small pine-cone-shaped winter rosette comprising as many as 100 tiny leaves. Two-lipped, five-lobed...

(Butterwort, George Sargent Butterwort)

A hybrid of two Mexican species, this small, tender perennial is grown for its charming violet-like flowers and its relatively large insect-trapping leaves.

In spring and summer this hybrid butterwort bears rosettes of fleshy, tongue-shaped, yellow-green leaves that glisten with droplet-producing, insect-snaring glands. The leaf margins may become red-tinted in bright light. In fall, plants die back to a somewhat smaller winter rosette. The two-lipped, lilac-purple flowers are borne singly...

(Butterwort, Gina Butterwort)

A hybrid of two Mexican species, this small, tender perennial is grown for its charming violet-like flowers and its curious insect-trapping leaves.

In spring and summer this hybrid butterwort bears flat rosettes of fleshy, tongue-shaped, apple-green leaves that glisten with droplet-producing, insect-snaring glands. The leaves sometimes curl inward at the margins. In fall, plants die back to a small, condensed, many-leaved rosette of succulent non-glandular leaves. The solitary, two-lipped,...

(Butterwort, Hameln Butterwort)

A hybrid of two Mexican species, this small, tender perennial is grown for its charming violet-like flowers and its curious insect-trapping leaves.

In spring and summer this hybrid butterwort bears flat rosettes of lax, broadly strap-shaped, yellowish-green leaves that glisten with droplet-producing, insect-snaring hairs. In fall plants die back to a rosette of smaller hairless leaves. The solitary, two-lipped, violet-purple flowers are borne on short leafless stems in spring and summer. The...