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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Slender Bladderwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-001:
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Setiscapella cleistogama
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Setiscapella subulata
COMMON NAME:
Slender Bladderwort, Zigzag Bladderwort
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_secl4_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060423_096
April Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
The erect, slender, wiry zigzag scape bears 1-10 yellow flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmusubulata_pc1
April Pickens County SC
Poe Creek State Forest
Lower lip to 0.3" with prominent palate and spur about equaling the lip, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmusubulata_steed
May Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-001:
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Setiscapella cleistogama
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Setiscapella subulata
2058
Forb
Annual/Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Look for it in moist sands or peats of various kinds of acidic wetlands, including wet pine savannas & flatwoods, shores of linesink ponds (dolines), borrow pits, ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple: sparsely dissected
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (usually)
2 fertile stamens, occasionally 2 staminodia
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Brown
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p235
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p095
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p254
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p297
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p192