Utricularia multifida
A tiny terrestrial bladderwort endemic to south-western Western Australia, known as pink petticoats or fairy aprons. A rosette only about 12 mm across sends up a 10–12 cm stalk with two or three pink flowers far larger than the plant, and its underground bladders catch springtails, mites and other soil animals. It is a winter-growing plant of a Mediterranean climate: it grows and flowers in the cool wet season and dies back as the ground dries in summer, which is the main thing growers have to reproduce.
Where it grows wild
It grows in the ground in the south-west corner of Western Australia, in places that are wet through winter and spring and dry out in summer, with its traps working among the damp soil and soil fauna. Detailed soil and vegetation data were not available from the sources consulted; in this region such bladderworts typically grow in open heath and on seasonally wet sandy or peaty flats.
Records checked carry no elevation. Its range, around Perth, the Darling Range and the south coast, is lowland to low hills, mostly below about 400 m.
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