Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Utricularia subulata

Common name

Zig-zag Plant

Family

Lentibulariaceae

Where found

Wet sandy soils near streams. Royal National Park south of Sydney. Morton National Park at Porters Creek Dam.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.08 m high, stoloniferous. Stems numerous, thread-like, branched, to several cm long. Insect traps on the stems and leaves. Leaves numerous, about 2 cm long, to 1 mm wide. Flowers 5–10 mm long, normal flowers yellow, flowers that do not open white to slightly reddish. Upper lip broadly oval, tip rounded; lower lip diamond-shaped to broadly wedge-shaped, base with a prominently rounded bilobed swelling, tip deeply 3-lobed. Flowers in a single, sometimes branched, cluster of 1- to at least 25-flowers. Flowering: December – February.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Utricularia~subulata (accessed 10 February, 2021)