Pale flower:
Eegads! I was astounded as I looked at what Brian had discovered. I had never seen a Pinguicula lutea flower
so pale! It looked rather more like a pale P. caerulea than anything else. It was astonishing!
Brian and I kneeled around the plant, like shamans supplicating before an idol.
I am guessing that, with the yellow palate lobe and oh-so-pale wash of yellow near the base and spur
of the flower, this plant doesn't quite count as
white-flowered. But it is quite extraordinary!
The P. pumila search was temporarily forgotten. I examined the plant from
the side, and compared the plant to normal flowers in both
portrait orientation and
landscape orientation.
But soon, I began to yearn again for P. pumila, and we returned to our creeping survey of the
Pinguicula lutea flower patches.
