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Floating Bladderwort
Utricularia australis
24 photos
Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.
Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.
Easily confused with
Greater BladderwortUtricularia vulgaris
humped bladderwortUtricularia gibbaStudy checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.
Where it is recorded
| Australia | 32 |
|---|---|
| Victoria | 8 |
| Tasmania | 8 |
| New South Wales | 7 |
| Western Australia | 7 |
| New Zealand | 5 |
| Northland Region | 2 |
| Waikato Region | 2 |
| Spain | 1 |
| Cataluña/Catalunya | 1 |
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
| Kingdom | Plants · Plantae |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta |
| Class | Dicots · Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales |
| Family | bladderwort family · Lentibulariaceae |
| Genus | Bladderworts · Utricularia |
Sources
- Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
- Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
- Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
- How much to rely on each source
Remember the name next time.
Practise Floating Bladderwort with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.