Horned Bladderwort

(Utricularia cornuta)

 

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Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Horned Bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta)

Identification: Plant aquatic with flowers on a long, naked stalk above water arising from a group of filamentous leaves below the water line or in mud. Flower yellow, snapdragon-like, with a lower, large banner-shaped petal with a large, basal, oblong hump.Upper petal smaller, rooflike. Base of corolla with a hanging tubular spur. Leaves thin, filamentous, but not highly branched, but with scattered air bladders. Plant 1.5 to 12 inches in height.

Distribution: Newfoundland to Washington, southward in the east to Florida and Texas.

Habitat: Horned Bladderwort is found in bogs and along the margins of streams and ponds.

Flowering period: July to August.

Horned Bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta)

Similar Species:

The spur at the base of the corolla will separate Horned Bladderwort from other species of Utricularia treated here. However there are other species with a spur that have not been included.

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