Utricularia scandens
A small, twining terrestrial bladderwort that winds its thin flower stalks around grass and sedge stems and bears small yellow flowers. It is widespread in seasonally wet grasslands, seepages, swamps and wet rock across tropical Africa, Madagascar, South and South-East Asia and northern Australia, from sea level to about 2,300 m. It is usually an annual of the wet season, so in cultivation it is grown warm, bright and wet, and kept going from seed.
Where it grows wild
It grows in open, sunny, waterlogged places: wet grassland and savanna, dambo and lake margins, seepages over granite inselbergs and basalt pavements, boggy creek beds and sandy floodplains. Tiny bladder traps sit in the wet soil, while the flower stalks twine around neighbouring grasses. Many sites dry out completely later in the year.
From near sea level to about 2,300 m; herbarium records cluster from 0 to 400 m and from 900 to 2,250 m.
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