Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Utricularia dichotoma
Common name
Fairy Aprons, Purple Bladderwort
Family
Lentibulariaceae
Where found
Damp places in forest, woodland, heath, and grassland; swamps and drainage ditches. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.5 m high, stoloniferous. Insect traps on the stems. Stems thin and wiry. Leaves in a basal rosette and arising from the stolons, 0.3–14 cm long, 2-5 mm wide. Flowers violet or purple, to mauve, blue, or pink, 12–22 mm long, 12-20 mm in diameter, 2-lipped, the upper lip small, sometimes notched, the lower lip fan-shaped, usually with 2 or 3 conspicuous yellow to white central ridges flanked by less-conspicuous violet or purple ridges. Flowers in clusters of 1–9, or opening one after the other, usually in pairs or whorls of 3-4. Flowering: most of the year.
Only conspicuous when in flower.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Utricularia~dichotoma (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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