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Accession Data:

Utricularia livida E.Mey.

  • subg. Bivalvaria sect. Calpidisca

  • Common Name: Bladderwort
  • Family: Lentibulariaceae Rich.

  • Country of Origin: South Africa and Mexico

  • Culture: Minimum temperature 2C, bright indirect light. Keep damp at all times.

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200202450
  • Source: Debbie Black - UIUC
  • Provenance: UIUC# PlBio1782
  • Accession Date: 10-16-2002
  • Bench: 2309 - Temperate Carnivores
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 01-23-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Lamiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Lentibulariaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
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2003

References (internal):

  • Carnivorous Plants
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Congo / Rwanda / Ethiopia / Somalia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Angola / Malawi / Mozambique / Zambia / Zimbabwe / Cape Provinces / Lesotho / Swaziland / Madagascar / Mexico Central / Mexico Northeast / Mexico Gulf / Mexican Pacific Is. / Mexico Northwest / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
  2. Utricularia livida at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
  3. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Petr Dlouhý (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.

data regenerated on Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:00:02 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Utricularia livida

Additional images for this accession:

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  • Pinguicula lusitanica
  • Pinguicula moranensis White Flower
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  • Pinguicula rotundiflora
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  • Utricularia dichotoma
  • Utricularia gibba
  • Utricularia humboldtii
  • Utricularia livida
  • Utricularia magna
  • Utricularia vulgaris subsp. macrorhiza W/C
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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