Which one is the most common utric where you live?

[utricseb]

Hi,

Here in my country I have found during the years that the most widespread and common species of Utricularia in Colombia is by far U.pusilla. I have found this species from the hot savanna habitats in the east to the cool grass patches inside the mountain forests up to 2600 meters over sea level. If you find a CP habitat here, it's almost sure this species will be present.

What is the case for your country?



U.pusilla flower


U.pusilla plant

Regards,

Sebastian

[matti]

Hi Sebastian, I am not sure about my country but my local area there are so many.

In order of most common first
Aquatic: Gibba, aurea
Terrestrial: lateriflora,uliginosa, (Utricularia dichotoma is not very wide spread up here but when you do find a patch it usually grows like a lawn were it is found.)


Utricularia lateriflora (big purple thing) Growing amongst Drosera spatulata, this species seems to preffer dryer growing conditions.

Field of Utricularia dichotoma

Out of focus close up.

Cultivated plant from same area.

Rare white Dichotoma in habitat, photo by alan haase. (used with permision)

[marcel]

Hi,

Most common in The Netherlands is U. vulgaris. We only have aquatic species, the others are U. australis, U. minor, U. intermedia en U. ochroleuca.

Marcel

[tom]

As for eastern Canada, I would go for Utricularia vulgaris for the aquatic and Utricularia cornuta for the terrestrial as the most common species.


Utricularia vulgaris


Utricularia cornuta

[gregh]

The ones I have seen in the Texas Hill Country are U. gibba. Very common, and the only CP to be seen in the limestone creeks with 12" of rainfall a year. In a wet summer, they form mats of tangled stems and yellow flowers in the shallow springs.

[BarryRice]

From most to least common, in California we have U. macrorhiza, then U. minor, then U. intermedia. More uncommon still is U. gibba (which lives in alpine lakes, very different conditions from the lowland habitats this often seems to prefer). Our rarest species is U. ochroleuca, which I think has only been found in two lakes. However, this is something of a debatable topic as there are some lakes where plants that look like something between U. intermedia and U. ochroleuca occur. These plants are the source of endless enjoyable emails between me and other geek botanists. Indeed, are they better considered U. stygia, as some would classify them?

We also have a few exotics in isolated locations.

[Sean Spence]

In my area, U. dichotoma is the most common and exhibits the most variation. U. lateriflora is common in coastal swamps and U. gibba and australis in waterholes. U. tenella can also be found in castal areas.

My favourite local species is U. beaugleholei but that is very rare nowadays after development has covered most of the remaining habitats.

[matti]

seanspence said:

In my area, U. dichotoma is the most common and exhibits the most variation. U. lateriflora is common in coastal swamps and U. gibba and australis in waterholes. U. tenella can also be found in castal areas.

My favourite local species is U. beaugleholei but that is very rare nowadays after development has covered most of the remaining habitats.

Hi Sean, Were do you recon I could obtain Utricularia tenella and beaugleholei? do you have any photos of your plants? I assume you cultivate both.

[Sean Spence]

Hi Matti,

You'll need to grow U. tenella from seed. I'll have plenty in spring. Some photos as requested-





U. beaugleholei can also be grown by seed. I believe that Greg Bourke has a nice colony of the species going from material that I supplied him with a few years ago. I currently do not grow the species. Here are a couple of shots of this fantastic species-





And finally, a couple of shots of my favourite form of U. dichotoma. This one is a tuber forming variety.

[matti]

Thanks for the help and photos Sean.... they are really nice, what kind of camera do you have?. unfortunately Greg always seems to be busy working or in Borneo or WA or some were, he is in WA at the moment. I have Drosera binata var.multifida from Bribie island and Aldrovanda from N.T. if you would like.

I was looking for a Drosera binata colony at Byron Bay a friend of mine located a few years ago, I found what looks to be Utricularia dichotoma by the leafs; none of it was in flower but I will have to get some next time I am there, looking at my map I was just meters away from the binata... next time.

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does anyone know where i would be able to find any aquatic ultricularia in sanbernardino county california?