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Florida yellow bladderwort

Utricularia floridana

Florida yellow bladderwort is a perennial aquatic carnivorous plant that traps tiny animals in small bladders on its submerged leaves. It grows rooted in shallow, nutrient-poor, acidic water such as pond margins and wet sandy or peaty ground.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Aquatic, Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the plant submerged or in constantly wet, shallow water.
Soil
Nutrient-poor wet sand or peat, or a mix of sphagnum and sand; avoid fertilized soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Hard
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
SE. U.S.A.
Climate
subtropical

About

Utricularia floridana, the Florida yellow bladderwort, is a large affixed aquatic carnivorous plant in the bladderwort genus within the bladderwort family). It is a perennial plant that is endemic to southeastern United States (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas).

Other Utricularia plants

Asian Golden Bladderwort · Bladderwort · Bladderwort · Flatleaf bladderwort · Southern bladderwort · Lead Bladderwort · Lesser bladderwort · Piedmont bladderwort · Utricularia pubescens · Pondo Bladderwort · Utricularia scandens · Fringed bladderwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Utricularia floridana 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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