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Greater Bladderwort

Utricularia vulgaris

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 1,537, February 1,135, March 1,778, April 2,797, May 4,033, June 4,398, July 4,706, August 4,047, September 2,971, October 2,218, November 1,212, December 947.
United States35,594
Alaska31,780
Canada2,565
Ontario1,250
Michigan589
Minnesota551
Wisconsin487
Russia424
Quebec377
New York292

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.From its classification

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Carnivorous plantDescends from a plant lineage whose members are carnivorous plants.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybladderwort family · Lentibulariaceae
GenusBladderworts · Utricularia

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