Utricularia quinquedentata
A small annual terrestrial bladderwort of the seasonally wet tropics of northern Australia, from the Kimberley across the Top End to Queensland. It grows in wet-season seepages over sandstone and granite and on sandy creek margins, sets seed, and dies as the dry season arrives. At home, grow it as a sunny, sopping-wet annual and resow it each year.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels place it on sandstone seepages under sparse Corymbia and heath shrubs, on sandy substrate at the edges of shallow creeks, and in open eucalypt woodland on granite hills. These are open, sunny sites that are waterlogged for the monsoon months and dry out completely afterwards.
Records run from near sea level (Groote Eylandt) to about 970 m on the Queensland tablelands, but most are lowland plateaus and gorges.
🔒 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 quinquedentata? 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.