Utricularia livida
A small terrestrial bladderwort from wet grassland and seepages in eastern and southern Africa, Madagascar and Mexico, with tiny bladders in wet soil and pale lavender to white flowers on stalks up to about 50 cm. It is one of the easiest terrestrial bladderworts to grow and holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit. It flowers mainly in summer but can be triggered at any time after a drier spell.
Where it grows wild
It grows in permanently or seasonally wet, open places: marshy grassland, seepage slopes, stream margins, wet sand and mossy rock faces, usually among short grasses and sedges. Its leaves and bladders sit in the wet surface soil, while only the flower stalks rise above the vegetation.
Recorded from near sea level to about 2,800 m in the literature. The 241 GBIF records with an elevation span 5–3254 m with a median of 1794 m, reflecting how many records come from the South African and Lesotho highlands, Madagascar's central plateau and the Mexican highlands.
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