Utricularia triloba
A small annual terrestrial bladderwort of section Setiscapella, widespread across tropical South America in wet sandy or peaty soil of savannas, cerrado seeps, restinga and wet grassland. It has yellow flowers on thin scapes and tiny leaves and bladders hidden in the saturated soil. Grow it like other tropical annual Utricularia: full sun, waterlogged sand-peat, warmth, and fresh seed when it dies back.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe it growing in the ground in sandy-peaty wet soil near watercourses in cerrado, on sandy soil in restinga, in high-altitude grassland among rock outcrops, and in wet marshy spots. These are open, sunny, seasonally waterlogged habitats.
GBIF records run from near sea level (coastal French Guiana, Paraná restinga) to about 825 m in the Minas Gerais uplands. A few records from the Serra da Canastra and Caparaó may be higher.
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