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Utricularia rhododactylos

Utricularia rhododactylos is a small annual bladderwort, a carnivorous plant that traps tiny aquatic prey in bladders on its stems. It is native only to the Northern Territory of Australia and is rarely grown in cultivation, so care advice relies on general bladderwort needs.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the growing medium constantly wet or submerged in shallow water during its growing season.
Soil
Shallow, nutrient-poor wet sand or peat, or a mineral-based substrate, kept saturated.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Utricularia rhododactylos is an annual carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae). It is a terrestrial or affixed subaquatic species. It is endemic to the Northern Territory in Australia.

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 rhododactylos 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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