Utricularia biloba
Utricularia biloba is a perennial bladderwort of section Nelipus, endemic to the coastal heaths of eastern Australia from Royal National Park near Sydney north into south-east Queensland. It grows in wet sand and shallow water, with small traps on fine underground and underwater shoots, and bears dark blue-violet flowers with white markings in late summer. Grow it like other warm-temperate, sun-loving wetland bladderworts: sunny, constantly wet and nutrient-poor.
Where it grows wild
Wet sand and shallow standing water in coastal heath and sedgeland (wallum), including seepage flats and pool margins on the sand masses of the NSW and Queensland coasts. It can be fully terrestrial in saturated sand or grow submerged as a subaquatic.
Coastal lowlands, almost entirely below about 100 m, on coastal sand plains and sand islands such as K'gari.
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