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Utricularia circumvoluta

Utricularia circumvoluta
Photo: Hugo Innes, CC BY-SA 4.0

Utricularia circumvoluta is a probably annual, carnivorous bladderwort from northern Australia that grows in shallow, wet swamps and streamsides, often twining up grasses and sedges. It needs constant wet or waterlogged conditions and is rarely grown in cultivation.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil or medium constantly wet, with shallow standing water.
Soil
Wet, nutrient-poor substrate such as sand or peat mixed with sphagnum moss.
Temperature
20–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. Northern Territory, N. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Utricularia circumvoluta is a medium-sized, probably annual, carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is endemic to the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia. U. circumvoluta grows as a terrestrial plant in swamps and near streams or lagoons, usually in shallow water in the company of tall grasses and sedges, which its inflorescence twines up. It was originally described and published by Peter Taylor in 1986. It somewhat resembles U. scandens, which it had been confused for in the past.

Other Utricularia plants

Utricularia adpressa · Utricularia albiflora · Utricularia albocaerulea · Utricularia alpina · Utricularia ameliae · Florida purple bladderwort · Utricularia andongensis · Utricularia antennifera · Utricularia appendiculata · Utricularia arcuata · Utricularia arenaria · Utricularia arnhemica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Utricularia circumvoluta 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.

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