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Utricularia aurea
In Singapore: Bladderwort, 黄花狸藻 (Grown in Singapore)
Utricularia aurea is a floating aquatic carnivorous plant that traps tiny water animals in small bladders on its submerged stems. It is grown in ponds and aquaria, and it needs still or slow water with plenty of light.
Utricularia aurea is a species of flowering plant in the family Lentibulariaceae. This medium- to large-sized suspended aquatic carnivorous plant is sometimes referred to by the common name golden bladderwort.
It is the most common and widespread suspended aquatic species in Asia. It is native to Assam, Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia), Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Japan, Java, Korea, Laos, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Bladderwort · Bladderwort · Florida yellow bladderwort · Flatleaf bladderwort · Southern bladderwort · Lead Bladderwort · Lesser bladderwort · Piedmont bladderwort · Utricularia pubescens · Pondo Bladderwort · Utricularia scandens · Fringed bladderwort
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Utricularia aurea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
