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Utricularia olivacea
Also called Dwarf Bladderwort
A tiny annual aquatic carnivorous bladderwort that floats in shallow, still or slow water and traps small aquatic animals in bladders on its thread-like stems. It is grown mainly in shallow tanks or bog-style pots that stay wet and nutrient-poor.
Utricularia olivacea, the piedmont bladderwort, is a very small, annual suspended aquatic carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. Utricularia olivacea is native to Central America, South America, the West Indies, and the eastern United States (coastal plain from Mississippi to New Jersey).
Asian Golden Bladderwort · Bladderwort · Bladderwort · Florida yellow bladderwort · Flatleaf bladderwort · Southern bladderwort · Lead Bladderwort · Lesser bladderwort · Utricularia pubescens · Pondo Bladderwort · Utricularia scandens · Fringed bladderwort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Utricularia olivacea 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.
