Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Utricularia subulata

Flower. Photographer Bob Peterson from Florida, USA

Flower. Photographer Barry Rice, California, USA

Line drawings. USDA NRCS PLANTS Database. Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 231.

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)