OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Utricularia foliosa   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia foliosa   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Utricularia foliosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Utricularia foliosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Utricularia foliosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Utricularia foliosa

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

Utricularia foliosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Flatstem Bladderwort, Leafy Bladderwort


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image of Utricularia foliosa, Flatstem Bladderwort, Leafy Bladderwort

Keith Bradley    kab_u_foliosa_75102

March    Collier County    FL

Big Cypress National Preserve

image of Utricularia foliosa, Flatstem Bladderwort, Leafy Bladderwort

Keith Bradley    kab_u_foliosa_75109

March    Collier County    FL

Big Cypress National Preserve

Readily IDed because of large flattened stolons covered w gelatinous goo, per www.sarracenia.com/faq.html.


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Utricularia foliosa   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia foliosa   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Utricularia foliosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Utricularia foliosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Utricularia foliosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Utricularia foliosa

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4082

Floating aquatic (without true roots); Forb
Perennial

Habitat: In deep water of natural lakes and ponds, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple: dissected into linear segments
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (usually)
2 stamens & 2 minute staminodia
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer
Brown
Capsule

 

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