OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia macrorhiza   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)

Utricularia vulgaris ssp. macrorhiza

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-006:

Utricularia vulgaris   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Utricularia macrorhiza

 

COMMON NAME:
Greater Bladderwort, Common Bladderwort


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image of Utricularia macrorhiza, Greater Bladderwort, Common Bladderwort

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_utma_001_lvd

        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia macrorhiza   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Utricularia vulgaris ssp. macrorhiza

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-006:
Utricularia vulgaris   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Utricularia macrorhiza

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4058

Floating aquatic (without true roots); Forb

Habitat: Pools and ponds, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Rare

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LEAVES:
Developed leaves with numerous segments, leaves usually forked 4-6x
Alternate

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

FRUIT:
Brown
Capsule

 

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