Utricularia vulgaris
Utricularia vulgaris, the greater bladderwort, is a rootless, free-floating aquatic carnivorous plant of still fresh water across Europe and Asia. Its finely divided leaves carry many small bladder traps that catch water fleas and other tiny animals, and yellow flowers stand above the water from spring to late summer. It is a temperate plant that forms winter buds (turions), so it needs a cold winter rest.
Where it grows wild
Floats just below the surface in still or slow fresh water: ponds, lakes, ditches, fens and bog pools, typically in sunny, sheltered water and often among other water plants. Stems can grow over a metre in a season.
Mainly lowland, in suitable standing water. Our measured data file had no usable wild GBIF records for this name, so no measured climate is available.
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