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Utricularia caerulea
About
Utricularia caerulea, the blue bladderwort, is a very small to medium-sized carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. caerulea spans a wide native range, including areas in tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia. It grows as a terrestrial plant in wet, shallow soils over rock, in wet grasslands, in swamps, or near streams in open communities, mostly at lower altitudes but ascending to as much as 2,100 m (6,890 ft). It was originally described and published by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.
- Family
- Lentibulariaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Utricularia caerulea
- Slug
- utricularia-caerulea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lentibulariaceae
- Genus
- Utricularia
- Species
- caerulea
- Wikidata QID
- Q1246947
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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