NameThatPlant.net: Utricularia purpurea

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

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

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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

COMMON NAME:
Purple Bladderwort

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

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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