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Utricularia petertaylorii

Utricularia petertaylorii
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Utricularia petertaylorii is a small annual terrestrial bladderwort, a carnivorous plant that traps tiny aquatic animals in bladders on its roots and stems. It is endemic to southwestern Western Australia and is a specialist plant rarely grown outside botanic or enthusiast collections.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the substrate constantly wet or waterlogged, as it grows in seasonally wet ground.
Soil
Very low-nutrient, moist sandy or peaty substrate, such as sand mixed with sphagnum moss.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Utricularia petertaylorii is an annual terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae). It is endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It is named in honor of Peter Taylor.

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 petertaylorii 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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