Utricularia dichotoma
A perennial terrestrial bladderwort from south-eastern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and New Caledonia, known for its showy purple fairy-apron flowers. It grows in wet, open ground, from coastal heath to subalpine bogs, and can grow submerged. It is easy in a sunny, wet pot with a cool winter.
Where it grows wild
Moist to wet open ground: bogs, swamp margins, wet heath, seepages and grassy wet flats. It sometimes grows in shallow water, where it produces longer narrow leaves up to 40 mm. Underground stems trail through the wet soil and carry the traps.
Records span 10–1,469 m. The median of 1,163 m comes from only 18 records and exaggerates the upland bias, since many populations are coastal and lowland.
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