Utricularia alpina
A medium-sized perennial bladderwort from the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and northern South America that grows either on the ground or as an epiphyte. It belongs to the group of large-flowered, tuber-forming bladderworts grown for their showy white flowers, and it catches tiny prey in bladders among moss. In cultivation it wants cool-to-intermediate cloud-forest conditions, bright shade, constant humidity and an open, mossy medium.
Where it grows wild
It grows terrestrially or as an epiphyte. Records concentrate on the forested volcanic mountains of Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saba and Saint Kitts and on the northern Andes and tepuis of Venezuela and Colombia, where it grows in wet, mossy forest.
The records checked carry no elevations. The Caribbean localities (such as Saint-Claude and Morne Trois Pitons) lie in wet montane forest, suggesting a mainly mid-elevation, roughly 500–1,500 m habitat, but this is inferred rather than recorded.
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