Utricularia lasiocaulis
An annual terrestrial bladderwort of tropical northern Australia (sect. Pleiochasia), with large, fan-shaped violet and yellow flowers. It germinates in the monsoon wet season on shallowly flooded white sand, wet sedgeland and boggy flats in open eucalypt woodland, flowers roughly February to June, and dies as the ground dries. At home it is grown from seed each year in hot, bright, waterlogged conditions.
Where it grows wild
Records describe shallowly flooded white sand in open Eucalyptus woodland, seasonally wet sedgeland, shallow flooded Corymbia polycarpa woodland, floodplain, and a damp boggy flat beside a creek, growing with sedges, Fimbristylis, Eriocaulon and Dapsilanthus spathaceus. These are open, sunny seepages and flats that are flooded in the wet season and bone dry in the dry season.
Lowland: the Darwin-area, Litchfield and Kimberley sites are near sea level to a few hundred metres.
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