Striate Bladderwort

(Utricularia striata)

 

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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.

 

Striate Bladderwort (Utricularia striata)

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, banner-shaped petal with a small, basal, round hump.Lower petal with an irregular outer margin and streaked with darker yellow. Upper petal triangular, streaked with darker yellow and slightly wrinkled in appearance, almost parallel to the lower petal. Leaves thin, filamentous, branched, with scattered air bladders. Plant 4 to 16 inches in height.

Distribution: Found along the coast from Long Island southward to Florida and westward to Texas.

Habitat: Striate Bladderwort is found in the shallow water of ponds or quiet streams.

Flowering period: June to August.

Striate Bladderwort (Utricularia striata)

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The darker stripes and irregular margins of the petals should easily identify this species.

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