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The photograph shows flowers of Utricularia cornuta (horned bladderwort). This plant species is widely distributed in North America and grows exclusively in wetlands such as bogs and fens. Horned Bladderwort plants are thought to be carnivorous, capturing and digesting small aquatic invertebrates (e.g. fairy shrimps, water fleas, rotifers and insect larvae) in specialized bladders situated on submerged blade like leaves. However evidence is accumulating that suggests the bladders may also serve to harbour mutually beneficial micro-organisms such as algae and bacteria that can provide key nutrients, in particular nitrogen, to the plant.
For more information see: www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/horned-bladderwort
Photo taken June 2021, a fen, West Quebec, Canada
Camera: Olympus EM5 MkII
Lens: Meyer Optik Görlitz Oreston 50mm f1.8 M42 (1960's twin zebra version)
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Eastern purple bladderwort (Utricularia purpurea) is an aquatic carnivorous plant that is endemic to parts of North and Central America. It has the ability to prey on aquatic arthropods that are trapped and digested in specialized swellings or bladders on the roots. Here the purple flowers emerge from the water surface of a wetland in West Quebec, Canada.
Photo taken July 2016.
Olympus EM1 with 60 mm F2.8 lens
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Here's the yellow flower of a terrestial bladderwort, Utricularia subulata. Most bladderworts' roots float in the water, but this one is anchored in wet, boggy ground. They're insectivorous; it's not the high-stemmed - awl-shaped (subulata) - flowers that capture small insects but rather bladders nestling in the wet soil.
Taken in the same are as the Fringed Orchids
Utricularia vulgaris (greater bladderwort[1] or common bladderwort) is an aquatic species of bladderwort found in Asia and Europe. The plant is free-floating and does not put down roots. Stems can attain lengths of over one metre in a single growing season, but die back and form turions in winter. The leaves are finely pinnately divided, between one and eight centimetres long and carry many bladder-like traps. The yellow flowers are borne on stalks above the surface of the water between April and August. Wikipedia
A young Yellow-wattled Lapwing, maybe about 7 weeks old, spotted at Madayipara, a flat-topped hillock located in the Madayi, of Kannur district of Kerala state. The Madayipara is well known for its rich diversity of plants. The aquatic and semi-aquatic plants form extensive carpets of blue, pink, white and yellow during the monsoon season. It is typical of the Laterite foothills of the Western Ghats. The bird is endemic to the Indian Subcontinent and is found mainly on the dry plains of peninsular India and has a sharp call and is capable of fast flight. Like other lapwings and plovers, they are ground birds and their nest is a mere collection of tiny pebbles within which their well camouflaged eggs are laid. They are known for their large yellow facial wattles.
The tiny blue flower seen around the bird is the Utricularia, also known as Kakkapoo, a carnivorous plant that is the highlight of the region during the monsoon season, particularly during the Onam festival. The blue blooms carpet the laterite plateau, attracting tourists and nature enthusiasts. The plant is commonly and collectively called the bladderworts that is a genus of carnivorous plants consisting of approximately 233 species. They occur in fresh water and wet soil as terrestrial or aquatic species across every continent except Antarctica. Utricularia are cultivated for their flowers, which are often compared with those of snapdragons and orchids, especially amongst carnivorous plant enthusiasts.
These yellow flowers belong to the Bladderwort which is an aquatic plant with a network of tiny bladders near the surface of the water. There are trigger hairs around the bladders which when set off will suck minute crustaceans into the bladder which closes and absorbs nutrients from these organisms trapped inside.
Vischer Ferry Nature and Historic Preserve
Rexford, NY
Several flowers in here:
White: White Water Crowfoot [Ranunculus aquaticus]
Yellow: Bladderwort [Utricularia intermedia]
Pink: Common Water Milfoil [Myriophyllum sibiricum]
Green: Mare's Tail [Hippuris vulgaris]
Macro shot of a common wildflower.
From wildflowersofireland.net:
“The flower buds of Nipplewort were thought to resemble nipples. It was therefore expected that its use would help to heal sore nipples. This theory was known as 'The Doctrine of Signatures'.
Briefly, 'The Doctrine of Signatures' came into medicine in the sixteenth century and held that God marked everything he created with some form of sign which would help to direct healers towards finding their cures for ailments. So, when one looked at this plant, one saw nipples and applied the doctrine. Many plants which have 'wort' as part of their name would have acquired the name as a result of this doctrine, plants such as Liverwort, Bladderwort, Lungwort would fall into this category. The word 'wort' comes from the Old English 'wyrt' for root or herb.”
This time at a different pond. There were plenty all ovipositing on a blanket of what promises to be a superb showing of Greater Bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris
). Also had my first Lesser Emperor of the year there as well as lots of Black-Tailed Skimmer
Utricularia multifida (pink petticoats or fairy aprons) is a carnivorous plant that belongs to the bladderwort genus, Utricularia. The species can be found in seasonally wet habitats across southwest Western Australia, especially depressions and channels on granite outcrops. This annual species races to mature within a single growing season, setting seed before the hot and dry summer dries out its habitat.
Last spring, during a long day of botanizing in the Pineywoods, I slammed the brakes as my peripheral vision caught thousands of bright yellow orbs seemingly floating over a dark forested wetland. What I had seen turned out to be a robust population of large floating bladderwort (Utricularia inflata). We spent some time admiring the plants, and I used a wide angle lens to capture the scene.
You might be surprised to hear that we have three types of carnivorous plants in the UK. Bladderworts and Butterworts along with these tiny Sundews. The droplets are sticky, to capture and digest Flies! A tricky shot in very wet habitat, I took a soaking to get this image, laying on rafts of Sphagnum Moss at Fen Bog nature reserve.
A number of plants are capable of eating small animals, especially insects. These plants are called insectivorous plants. Examples include the Venus's-flytrap, pitcher plants, sundews, and bladderworts. These unusual plants are most often found in moist and nutrient-poor habitats, such as bogs. The insects that the plants trap are not a major source of organic…
For the group, Flower Themes, here's a collage of flower pics with extra beauty in the blur.
1. Scilla behind a basswood leaf skeleton (Twin Oaks Woods, Waterloo, Ontario)
2. Hepatica (Twin Oaks Woods)
3. Trout lily or yellow dogtooth violet (Twin Oaks Woods)
4. Leatherwood (Twin Oaks Woods)
5. Blue-eyed grass (my garden, Waterloo)
6. Garlic mustard with a margined calligrapher hoverfly (Twin Oaks Park)
7. Queen Anne's lace (Twin Oaks Park)
8. Fireweed (Near the cottage, Haliburton County)
9. White trillium (Twin Oaks Woods)
10. Horned bladderwort, a carnivorous plant (Fletcher Lake, Haliburton County)
11. Bindweed and goldenrod (Twin Oaks Park)
12. Beggar ticks (Twin Oaks Woods)
13. Queen Anne's lace (Twin Oaks Park)
14. Burdock (Twin Oaks Woods)
15. Tulips (a neighbour's garden, Waterloo)
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Utricularia cornuta
The red-leaved plants are round-leaved sundew. Both are carnivorous plants in a wetland. Sundew traps insects on its sticky leaves. Bladderwort traps creatures in the mud using bladders attached to its roots. Deriving nutrition from insects allows these plants to grow on nutrient-poor mud near the edge of a small lake on the Canadian Shield.
Algonquin Highlands near Dorset, Ontario.
The reflection of this pond's water is Gray. It was a perfectly ghastly rainy and windy, chilly and dreich day. I went anyway to Delft to meet up with a friend to visit the tomb of William the Silent of Orange. But beforehand, I ventured out to the little gem of a Botanic Garden of the Technical University. It's a mere 100 years old - very young compared to other famous botanical gardens in The Netherlands often dating 300 or more years back. But it's a delightful place. It was founded primarily as a 'technological' garden for the culture of economically useful plants especially from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Since then it's developed further into a special place for endangered plants and a number of special collections such as Gingers, Nutmeg, Witchhazel, and more.
Here's Common Bladderwort, bright against the water reflecting the gray, stormy sky. In this photo, you can't see the 'bladders'; they're little structures on the stems under water which trap small aquatic animals. But for today the Bright Yellow Blossom lifts one's spirits to look beyond the Gray to the Sun and the Blue.
Had a lovely walk through Fish Creek Provincial Park in Calgary today, and saw some unique wildflowers. The Hemlock is said to be highly poisonous. The Scentless Camomile, while pretty, is a much-hated invasive weed. We don't have a lot of water plants in Calgary, and so it was nice to see the Common Bladderwort. Smooth Fleabane is not an uncommon wildflower, but still pretty to see.
The new leaf of a Tall Sundew (Drosera fragrans) growing in the incredibly bio-diverse sandsheet heath habitats of Darwin. It will soon join all the other leaves in the plant in trapping and digesting small flying insects.
A good wet season has brought out an immense density and diversity of carnivorous plants in Darwins' flooded environments. Yesterday alone I saw five species of sundews and three species of bladderworts at one small roadside site. Botanists from all over the world visit these areas to witness the stunning diversity.
The species these habitats harbour make them extremely important, but unfortunately they are constantly under threat from development in rural Darwin.
Twining Bladderwort
A twining, aquatic or sub-aquatic perennial, herb, 0.2-1.2 m high.
This endemic plant grows in a number of discreet locations in the South West of Western Australia.
They reminded us of Ballerinas with their pretty skirts.
Sundew (Drosera auriculata)
I went back to look for the Sundew today and not only were they still doing well, they were soaked with raindrops from the big rains we’ve had in the last few days. They're very small and would easily be missed by most, but I knew where a clump of them was growing. Sundew are carnivorous plants that derive some or most of their nutrients by trapping and consuming animals such as insects or other arthropods. In New Zealand we have Drosera (sundews) - seven native species - and Utricularia (bladderworts) - three native species ❤️