NameThatPlant.net: Utricularia subulata

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Utricularia subulata FAMILY Lentibulariaceae Go to FSUS key

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

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image of Utricularia subulata, Slender Bladderwort, Zigzag Bladderwort

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_secl4_001_lvd

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 (Carman, 2005).

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 (Carman, 2005).

Patrick D. McMillan pdmusubulata_steed

May Berkeley County SC

Francis Marion National Forest

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
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

Habitat: Moist sands or peats of various kinds of acidic wetlands, including wet pine savannas and flatwoods, shores of limesink ponds (dolines), borrow pits, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

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LEAVES:
Simple: sparsely dissected

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (usually)
2 fertile stamens, occasionally 2 staminodia
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown
Capsule

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