Utricularia reticulata
A showy terrestrial to subaquatic bladderwort from India and Sri Lanka, with twining flower stems 15–50 cm long carrying bluish-purple flowers whose lower lip is darkly net-veined. It grows in wet grasslands, seepages over rock and rice fields in the monsoon, and is probably annual. Grow it hot, bright and permanently wet, like a monsoon-wetland annual.
Where it grows wild
Marshy grasslands, wet soil and thin mats over seeping rock, and rice paddies, where it is a common weed. It grows terrestrially in saturated soil or subaquatically in shallow standing water, in open, sunny sites during the monsoon.
Lowland to lower hill country, from near sea level to about 750 m. Our data file had no usable wild records.
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