Utricularia hirta
A small terrestrial bladderwort of seasonally wet, open ground across South and South-East Asia, from India and Sri Lanka to Indochina and Borneo. It grows in wet grassland, sandstone savanna seeps and rice-field margins in full sun, flowering in the monsoon from July to December. In cultivation treat it like other small tropical terrestrial Utricularia: a permanently wet, nutrient-poor mix in bright light and warmth.
Where it grows wild
Damp or wet open areas and marshes. Herbarium labels describe open, seasonally dry soil in savanna glades with bare sandstone, moist savanna on sandstone, wet grassy valleys, and rice fields or swampy roadsides in sun.
Sea level to about 1000 m in the literature; a few Thai and Indian specimens are recorded up to 1300 m.
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