Utricularia caerulea
A small terrestrial bladderwort, very variable across its huge range from India and Madagascar through Southeast Asia to Japan, Korea and Australia. It grows in wet, open places such as seepages over rock, wet grassland and swamp margins, catching tiny prey in underground bladders and sending up slender stalks of small blue-violet flowers. In cultivation it is an easy, sun-loving plant for a permanently wet peat-sand mix.
Where it grows wild
It grows as a terrestrial plant in wet, shallow soils over rock, in wet grasslands, in swamps and beside streams, always in open communities. In northern Australia, which has most of the records, it grows in seasonally wet sandy seepages and swamp margins that dry out in the dry season.
Recorded elevations run from 5 to 1476 m, median 150 m (67 records); the literature gives lowlands up to about 2100 m.
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