🌱 Beginner-Friendly "Drama-free plant energy"

Pretty first, deadly second. A tidy pastel rosette that looks like a succulent and works like flypaper, topped with pink blooms that float above it like a dancer mid-spin.

What you get: 1 live Pinguicula 'Pirouette', grower's choice, shipped bare root (no pot), plus a plant care card, a QR code to our free online plant guide, and a discount code for your next order.

Quick facts

• Difficulty: beginner-friendly
• Light: bright light to partial sun
• Water: distilled, rain or RO only. Lightly moist while it's in sticky carnivorous mode
• Soil: Mexican butterwort mix of peat, sand and pumice or perlite. No potting mix or fertilizer
• Winter: shifts to small, non-sticky succulent leaves. Water less until the carnivorous leaves return
• Outdoors in USDA Zones 9–11; indoors anywhere
• Mature size: about 3 inches across
• Pet friendly
• Eats: fungus gnats and other tiny pests

No traps, no snapping, no drama. Just results. Soft. Sparkly. Secretly savage.

Fresh out of the box: ships bare root with no peat, sphagnum or pot. Pot into rinsed, damp peat or sphagnum using only distilled, RO or rain water, set the pot in a dish of the same water, and ease it back into bright light.

Cold weather: heat packs are required November through February for the live arrival guarantee. Outside those months, if any stop on the route from California to you could drop below 50°F, add a heat pack. Plants are dramatic about frostbite, and honestly, fair.

Live arrival guarantee: if your plant shows up in rough shape, send us a photo within 48 hours of delivery. For an eligible claim we may provide a replacement when available, a refund to the original payment method, a partial refund, store credit, or care and recovery instructions when the issue is cosmetic or reversible. Heat packs are required November through February for the guarantee. Orders over $100 ship UPS or USPS with shipping insurance. Orders usually ship within a few days, Monday through Wednesday, so plants never sit in a carrier warehouse over a weekend (we may make an exception if you're close by, likely to receive it by Saturday, or the weather along the route is mild). Full shipping and refund policies are on our website. Every plant is nursery grown in California.

Water:
• Use ONLY distilled, rain, or reverse osmosis water
• Keep soil lightly moist during carnivorous phase
• Reduce watering during winter succulent phase

Feeding:
• Catches its own tiny insects
• No fertilizer required
• Optional occasional dried insects indoors

• Mexican Pinguicula mix
• Typically peat, sand, and pumice or perlite
🚫 No fertilizer soil or standard potting mix

Pinguicula ‘Pirouette’ is adaptable and resilient when given proper light and water. It tolerates indoor conditions well and transitions smoothly between seasonal growth phases. Not frost-hardy — protect from cold.

Dormancy:

• Winter

Growing Zones (unless Indoors):

• 9a
• 9b
• 10a
• 10b
• 11a
• 11b

Native Area:

Hybrid cultivar (Mexican Pinguicula lineage)

• Leaf pullings
• Division
• Offsets
(Easy and rewarding)

• Indoors

• Do you offer free shipping?
• Wild Wonders Oasis will run free shipping offers once orders have reached a certain threshold. You can find this information on the Product Pages, Cart Page, and Checkout Page.
  
  Shipping costs are calculated at checkout based on your order, location, selected carrier, and shipping speed. Basically, the plants need a safe little travel plan, and unfortunately the postal goblins do require payment. 📦🌿
  
  We do our best to offer available shipping options at checkout so you can choose what works best for you.
• Do you offer express shipping?
• Yes — express shipping options may be available at checkout.
  
  At checkout, you’ll see a variety of postal carriers and shipping speeds to choose from, depending on your location and the items in your order. Pick the option that works best for you and your leafy little travel companions. 🌿
  
  Please note that shipping speeds begin once the carrier receives the package — not while your plant is still being lovingly packed like the tiny botanical celebrity it is.