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Utricularia uniflora

Utricularia uniflora
Photo: MFdeS, CC BY-SA 3.0

Utricularia uniflora is a small terrestrial bladderwort, a carnivorous plant that traps tiny aquatic prey in bladders. It is native to southeastern Australia and Tasmania and needs constantly moist, nutrient-poor conditions to thrive.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the root zone constantly wet, standing in shallow water or a saucer of rainwater.
Soil
Very poor mix such as sphagnum moss or sand; avoid fertiliser-rich soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to Tasmania
Climate
subtropical

About

Utricularia uniflora is a terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae). Its distribution ranges across southeastern Australia from extreme southeastern Victoria through New South Wales to southern Queensland. It is also found in Tasmania.

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 uniflora 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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