Purple Bladderwort

(Utricularia purpurea)

 

Color Photograph: © by and courtesy of Hugh H. Iltis, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

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

 

Purple Bladderwort (Utricularia purpurea)

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. Flowers pealike, pink to lavender, with a small tonguelike petal hanging downward at the bottom of the flower. Leaves filamentous, much branched, with scattered air bladders. Flower stalks 2 to 6 inches in height.

Distribution: Minnesota in the west to Nova Scotia in the east, southward to Florida and Texas.

Habitat: Purple Bladderwort is found in the water along the margins of ponds and muddy streams.

Flowering period: June to September.

Purple Bladderwort (Utricularia purpurea)

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The purple flowers easily separate this Purple Bladderwort from other species of Utricularia.

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