NameThatPlant.net: Utricularia juncea

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

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

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Southern Bladderwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia juncea FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-003:

Utricularia juncea FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Stomoisia juncea

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Stomoisia virgatula

COMMON NAME:
Southern Bladderwort, Slender Horned Bladderwort

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image of Utricularia juncea, Southern Bladderwort, Slender Horned Bladderwort

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_stju_001_lvd

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_stvi10_001_lvd

JK Marlow jkm161001_815

September Chesterfield County SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

Patrick D. McMillan pdmujuncea_aiken1

Month Unknown Aiken County SC

Lower flower does not reach basal end of the pedicel of the one above, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Utricularia juncea FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia juncea FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-003:
Utricularia juncea FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stomoisia juncea

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stomoisia virgatula

2351

Forb
Annual/Perennial

Habitat: Shores of limesink ponds (dolines), borrow pits, wet sands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple: Sparsely dissected, small

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Capsule

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