Utricularia warmingii
A small annual, free-floating aquatic bladderwort of South American seasonal wetlands, from the Venezuelan and Colombian llanos through the Pantanal to Bolivia and Brazil. It lives in marshes and flooded savannas that fill in the rainy season and shrink or dry later, completing its life cycle in one wet season. It is rarely photographed or cultivated, and care has to be inferred from its habitat and from related tropical aquatic Utricularia.
Where it grows wild
Shallow, sunny, still water in seasonal marshes ('esteros'), flooded savannas and floodplain grassland ('vazantes'), pond margins and submerged vegetation. The water is warm, fairly soft and full of other aquatic plants among which it floats.
Most records are lowland wetlands below about 200 m (Pantanal, llanos of Casanare and Arauca). A record at about 2,470 m in southern Ecuador is far outside the rest of the range and should be treated with caution.
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