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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-001:
Utricularia subulata FAMILY Lentibulariaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Setiscapella cleistogama
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Setiscapella subulata
COMMON NAME:
Slender Bladderwort, Zigzag Bladderwort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_secl4_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060423_096
April Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
The erect, slender, wiry zigzag scape bears 1-10 yellow flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmusubulata_pc1
April Pickens County SC
Poe Creek State Forest
Lower lip to 0.3" with prominent palate and spur about equaling the lip, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmusubulata_steed
May Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-001:
Utricularia subulata
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Setiscapella cleistogama
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Setiscapella subulata
2058
Forb
Annual/Perennial
Habitat: Moist sands or peats of various kinds of acidic wetlands, including wet pine savannas and flatwoods, shores of limesink ponds (dolines), borrow pits, ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple: sparsely dissected
FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p235
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p095
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p248
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p254
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p297
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p192
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