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Utricularia lasiocaulis

Utricularia lasiocaulis
Photo: Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0

Utricularia lasiocaulis is a small annual bladderwort from northern Australia that traps tiny aquatic animals in bladders on its stems and leaves. It grows in seasonally wet, sunny spots such as sandy ground that floods in the wet season.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil or substrate constantly wet or submerged during its growing season.
Soil
Nutrient-poor, wet sand or peat-based mix.
Temperature
20–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Utricularia lasiocaulis is an annual terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae). Its distribution ranges from Western Australia through the Northern Territory and into Queensland, Australia.

The species was named by Victorian Government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1885 and is characterised by large fanlike flowers in violet and yellow.

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 lasiocaulis 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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