Utricularia tricolor
A medium to large perennial terrestrial bladderwort of section Foliosa, widespread in South America from Venezuela and Colombia to Argentina and Uruguay. It spreads by stolons with small leaves above ground and traps in the wet soil, and it grows readily in cultivation. Grow it in a bright, permanently wet tray of peat and sand.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial species; like other members of section Foliosa it grows in wet, open ground, typically waterlogged sandy or peaty soils in marshes and wet grasslands. The sources found give no species-specific habitat description.
No elevation range was found in the sources, and GBIF has no usable wild records for this name, so none could be measured.
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