Carnivorous Aquatic Plant

Greater/Common Bladderwort (Utricularia macrorhiza) at the Lyn Valley Conservation Area, Ontario, Canada. This plant has a network of bladders located under the water to trap small organisms for consumption. The bright yellow flowers can be seen from June to August.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Note: it looks like Utricularia vulgaris and Utricularia macrorhiza are synonyms for the same species, hence reusing the existing record we already had. Posted one month ago

Greg Shchepanek

Lion

Hey Ferdy, if you checkout this link you will see it is different than U. vulgaris
https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.139332/Utricularia_macrorhiza
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utricularia_macrorhiza
Posted one month ago

The Common bladderwort

''Utricularia vulgaris'' is an aquatic species of bladderwort found in Asia and Europe. The plant is a free-floating and does not put down roots. Stems can attain lengths of over one metre in a single growing season, but die back and form turions in winter.

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Similar species: Lamiales

Species identified by Ferdy Christant