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Photographer: Theodore S. Cochrane
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Family Lentibulariaceae
Utricularia cornuta Michx.
horned bladderwort, naked bladderwort
Utricularia: from Latin utriculus, "a small bag or bladder," the common name of which is bladderwort
cornuta: bearing horns or spurs, usually the flowers
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual/perennial, 3"-14" tall, aquatic forb; finely branched, buried roots with minute bladders |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, 3/4" long, 2 lipped, lower lip with a prominent, downward- pointing spur;  ; inflorescence of 1 to 6 stalked flowers in a cluster (raceme) on a green to yellow-green, 4"-10" tall stalk, oblong bracts below the cluster with an additional pair of smaller bractlets;  ; blooms July-Aug. |
| Leaf: | small, mostly below the soil and usually not seen |
| Habitat: | bogs, shores |
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