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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia purpurea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-004:

Utricularia purpurea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

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

Vesiculina purpurea

 

COMMON NAME:
Purple Bladderwort


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_vepu4_001_lvd

        

image of Utricularia purpurea, Purple Bladderwort

Keith Bradley    kab_u_purpurea_7554

May    Miami-Dade County    FL

image of Utricularia purpurea, Purple Bladderwort

John B. Nelson    jbn_4819582860_15cc2fdf5b

August        SC

A free-floating carnivorous aquatic, flowers borne near top of 2-4" stems, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).


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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia purpurea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-004:
Utricularia purpurea   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

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

 

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2860

Floating aquatic (without true roots); Forb
Annual/Perennial

Habitat: In water of ponds, ditches, other slow-moving water, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple: dissected into linear segments
Whorled or opposite

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Pink/ Purplish
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (usually)
2 fertile stamens, occasionally 2 staminodia
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown
Capsule

 

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