Family Index

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Scientific Name

Utricularia monanthos

Family Name

LENTIBULARIACEAE

Common Name

Mountain Bladderwort

Status

Height

2-10cm

Flowers

Purple, usually solitary, on the end of the flowering stalk. The lower lip has yellow markings.

Fruit

Capsule

Form

Herb with slender erect flowering stalk, and upward pointing traps.

Municipalities

Burnie; Central Highlands; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Kentish; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; West Coast

Communities

Habitat Notes

Occasional but widespread in wet sandy ground, from sea level to about 1160m.

Site Tolerance

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

General Notes

Grown from seed or division, may grow faster if kept partially submerged in 5mm of water. Stand the pot in a saucer of water in a well-lit position. Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Seed Collecting Months

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Sowing Months

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Cutting Months

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Seed Information

Seed Collection

Minute.

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Yes

Cutting Notes