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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Utricularia cornuta
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Horned Bladderwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia cornuta
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-002:
Utricularia cornuta FAMILY Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stomoisia cornuta
COMMON NAME:
Horned Bladderwort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_stco15_001_lvd
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmucornuta_lr1
May Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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Dan Whitten sdw_053121_bladderwort
May Greenville County SC
Chandler Heritage Preserve
One of the more striking species of bladderworts in NC, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Dan Whitten sdw_053121_bladderwort2
May Greenville County SC
Chandler Heritage Preserve
...where sympatric with U. juncea, U. cornuta flowers much earlier, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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JK Marlow jkm060603_043
June Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm060604_024
June Pickens County SC
Lower lip at least 0.5" long with downward-pointing spur & elevated palate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm060604_063
June Pickens County SC
Can be distinguished from U. juncea by its fewer & larger, crowded flowers, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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JK Marlow jkm220605_8242
June Greenville County SC
Chandler Heritage Preserve
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Keith Bradley kab_u_cornuta_73426
August Miami-Dade County FL
Everglades National Park
A slender spur curves downward, almost tilting the flower diagonally upward, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Utricularia cornuta
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia cornuta
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 170-02-002:
Utricularia cornuta
FAMILY
Lentibulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stomoisia cornuta
2079
Forb
Annual/Perennial
Habitat: Saturated peaty soils of shores of limesink ponds (dolines), bogs, fens, wet barrens, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple: sparsely dissected, very small, usually underground and seldom seen
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FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (usually)
2 fertile stamens, occasionally 2 staminodia
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p117
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p113
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p405
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p016
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p095
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p248
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p254
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p297
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