Utricularia purpureocaerulea
A small terrestrial bladderwort from the campo rupestre and cerrado wetlands of Minas Gerais, Bahia and Goiás in Brazil. It belongs to section Aranella. Its flowers are purple-blue, with a yellow patch on the palate, and are carried on short scapes above wet sand. Grow it like other sun-loving terrestrial Utricularia: waterlogged sandy peat in a tray of water, with strong light.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial herb of permanently or seasonally wet ground. Collectors found it in wet, sandy soil among rocks in campo rupestre, in seeps and small streams over rock, on sandy stream banks, in marshes and waterlogged hollows, and in veredas (Mauritia palm swamps) of the cerrado. It often grows alongside other Utricularia, Genlisea and Drosera. These are open, sunny habitats with low grasses and sedges.
Wikipedia gives 1,000–1,600 m, and most labelled records fall between about 600 and 1,750 m in the Espinhaço Range, Chapada Diamantina and Chapada dos Veadeiros. A few low-altitude records (about 70–150 m) and one at 3,500 m are probably errors or unusual sites.
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