Utricularia trichophylla
A small bladderwort of Central and South America in section Setiscapella, growing in wet sand and mud, marshes and shallow water from Belize to Paraguay. It forms tiny hair-like leaves and traps in saturated soil and sends up thin stalks of small yellow flowers. It is a warm-growing marsh plant that wants bright light and permanently wet, lean soil.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe marshy creek margins in cerrado with plants rooted in mud under shallow water, wet sand beside streams in gallery forest, free water in shaded gallery forest, marshy trail sides and sedge meadows in coastal restinga. It grows as a terrestrial or subaquatic plant in open, seasonally or permanently wet ground.
Mostly lowland to mid elevations: GBIF records run from sea level to about 1,450 m, with the middle half between about 65 and 630 m.
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