Pink Butterwort, or Pale Butterwort, is the smallest of the three Irish Butterworts; it is also the last to flower. The flowers are a pale lilac and yellow colour. The leaves are a drab green; they form a basal rosette which stays visible through the winter.
Like its fellows it grows in damp conditions, in bogs and by mountain streams. It is often found in the extreme west but is more rare in the rest of the country. Like the others it is insectivorous, oozing sticky fluids which, with leaf edges that roll inward, trap and digest insects. It is as elegant-looking as its fellow Butterworts.
Flowering time is from late June to September. Pink Butterwort is a western European plant. It grows in some western parts of England and Scotland, in western France, western Spain and Portugal.