The leaves are oblong-ovate to elliptical, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, with margins slightly rolled inwards.

Pinguicula hirtiflora flowers from April to October, bearing fruit from June to December.

[2] Gregarious populations are found on shady steep rocks with seeping water, around springs, along streams and brooks running through wet meadows or peat bogs, on serpentine, limestone, dolomite, tufa or flysch.

There are four introduced populations, two near Bern and Interlaken in Switzerland, one near Tichá in Czech Republic and one in Roya Valley in France.

In Albania, it is widely distributed from Lake Skadar and Qafa e Markofçës to Gërmenj-Shelegur in the southeast.