Habit: Perennial herb [(annual)] of moist habitats; carnivorous by sticky or slimy leaves.
Stem: caudex.
Leaf: simple, in rosette, fleshy; margins entire, incurving over trapped prey or not; adaxially with stalked glands that capture small organisms, sessile glands that digest them.
Inflorescence: 1-flowered [rarely 2-flowered]; scape succulent, glandular, bracts 0.
Flower: calyx upper lip 3-lobed, lower lip 2-lobed; corolla lower lip often hairy, generally not blocking throat.
Fruit: 2-valved.
Species In Genus: +- 92 species: America, Europe, Mediterranean.
Etymology: (Latin: +- fat, from leaf surface)
Jepson eFlora Author: Barry A. Rice
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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