Utricularia minutissima
A tiny terrestrial bladderwort that ranges widely across tropical and subtropical Asia to New Guinea and northern Australia. It grows in damp to wet open ground on muddy or sandy soil. The plant is mostly a mat of minute leaves and underground traps, sending up very small flowers in the wet season. Grow it like other small terrestrial bladderworts: bright light, warmth and a permanently wet, nutrient-poor mix.
Where it grows wild
Damp or wet open places with muddy or sandy soil, such as seepages, wet grassland, paddy margins and the edges of swamps and pools. Most of the plant lives in the waterlogged surface soil, where tiny bladders catch microscopic prey. The flowering stems rise only a few centimetres.
Recorded from sea level to 2,100 m.
🔒 Growing it like that
The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:
Grow Utricularia minutissima? Add it to a free garden and its full profile opens. Pro opens all 38,374 profiles in the library, plants and fungi.
More Utricularia
Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.