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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Utricularia juncea
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
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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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_stju_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_stvi10_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm161001_815
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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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)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple: Sparsely dissected, small
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (usually)
2 fertile stamens, occasionally 2 staminodia
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p113
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p405
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p095
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p248
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p192
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