Scientific Name: Utricularia caerulea

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  • Type:
  • Family:
    LENTIBULARIACEAE
  • Flowers:
    mauve to white, warmer months.
  • Vegetation Type:
    damp sandy soils
  • Species List:
    EdingtonDr, Cooroibah, Weyba Nature Refuge, Eumarella Rd., Fraser Island, Batianoff 87, Emu Swamp
Identification Notes

"Description: Terrestrial annual or sometimes perennial herb. Leaves oblanceolate, to 1 cm long, to 2 mm wide. Traps on stolons and leaves; ovoid, dimorphic; larger 1–1.5 mm long, mouth with long, acute beak; smaller 0.25–0.5 mm long, mouth with short tooth; mouth lateral. Raceme erect, solitary, 5–30 cm long, usually 1–20-flowered; flowers distant to congested; scales numerous, similar to bracts; bracts basisolute, 1.5–3 mm long; bracteoles ± basisolute, about as long as bract above point of fixture. Calyx lobes unequal, ovate-oblong or transversely elliptic, 1.5–3 mm long. Corolla 2–8 mm long, white or yellowish to pink, or pale to dark violet, lower lip marked with yellow; spur narrow-conical, usually much longer than Flowering: Aug.–Apr. Distribution and occurrence: Usually grows in open, wet grasslands, swamps and stream margins, mostly at low altitudes" (PlantNET)