Utricularia subulata
Utricularia subulata, the zigzag bladderwort, is a tiny terrestrial bladderwort. It is the most widespread species in the genus, found almost throughout the tropics and into the warm-temperate southeastern United States. It lives in constantly wet sand and peat in sunny, open places, sets seed readily, and in cultivation often turns up as a weed in other carnivorous plant pots.
Where it grows wild
It grows in open, wet, nutrient-poor ground: wet sandy savannas, seepages, pond and ditch margins, and bare peat in bogs and pine savanna. Its underground traps sit in waterlogged sand or peat, and only small leaves and wiry zigzag flower stems show above ground. It is usually described as annual, persisting through seed.
Mostly lowland, from near sea level through low hills across the tropics. GBIF records carry little elevation data, so no reliable upper limit is given here.
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