Utricularia juncea
A small terrestrial bladderwort with slender, rush-like yellow flower scapes, growing in wet sand and peat at the edges of ponds, bogs and savanna seeps from the south-eastern United States through the Caribbean to Brazil. It is a lowland plant of open, sunny, permanently wet ground. In cultivation it behaves like other small terrestrial Utricularia: full light, pure water and a medium that never dries.
Where it grows wild
Grows in shallow water and saturated sand or peat in marshes, pond and lagoon margins, wet pine savannas, bogs and flooded coastal scrub (restinga). The traps live in the wet substrate, and the plants are usually in open, sunny vegetation among sedges and grasses.
Mostly at low altitude. Brazilian GBIF specimens range from sea level to about 460 m, most below 70 m, and the North American range is coastal plain.
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