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Photographer: Joshua A. Horky
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Family Lentibulariaceae
Utricularia resupinata B.D.Greene ex Bigelow
northeastern bladderwort, resupinate bladderwort
Utricularia: from Latin utriculus, "a small bag or bladder," the common name of which is bladderwort
resupinata: bent back, put on its back, applied to organs turned upside down by a twist in their support
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | floating annual/perennial, up to 4" tall, aquatic forb; delicate stems horizontal just below the soil or floating on the water; roots delicate, from the leaf axils, sometimes with bladders |
| Flower: | purple, 5-parted, 1/2" long, 2 lipped, tipped backwards and facing upward with the spur almost horizontal;  solitary on hair-fine, erect 3/4"-4" stalk, a tubular, notched bract without bractlets below; blooms July-Aug. |
| Leaf: | long and narrow to 1 1/4" long, grass-like, along the stem |
| Habitat: | shores, shallows, quiet water; in muddy soil |
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