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Photographer: Paul Skawinski
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Family Lentibulariaceae
Utricularia vulgaris L.
Common bladderwort, great bladderwort
Utricularia: from Latin utriculus, "a small bag or bladder," the common name of which is bladderwort
vulgaris: Latin for "common"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, floating aquatic; stems leafy, loosely floating just below the water surface |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, 3/4" long, 2 lipped, lower lip with sickle-like spur facing forward;  inflorescence 6-20 stalked flowers in a cluster (raceme) on a sagging stalk held above the water, 1-several bracts below the cluster; blooms June-Aug. |
| Leaf: | finely divided, leaf-like branches forking 3-7 times, no midrib, alternate; many bladders, young bladders greenish and transparent, older ones dark brown to black |
| Habitat: | lakes, ponds, ditches |
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