Utricularia gibba

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Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,028 meters (0 to 9,934 feet).[1]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual , Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 18-24" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.6 • Maximum pH: 7.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. (map)

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Utricularia biflora Lam.
2. Utricularia fibrosa Walt.
3. Utricularia obtusa Sw.
4. Utricularia pumila Walt.
5. Vesiculina Gibba

Notes

Publishing author : Walter Publication : Fl. Carol. 64 Publishing author: Sw. Publication: Prodr. (Swartz) 14. 1788 [20 Jun-29 Jul 1788] Publishing author: Bonpl. ex A.DC. Publication: Prodr. (DC.) 8: 10 1844 [mid Mar 1844] Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Utricularia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 642 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

U. aberrans · U. acicularis · U. acuta · U. adenantha · U. adpressa (Bladderwort) · U. affinis · U. afromontana · U. alata · U. alba · U. albiflora · U. albina · U. alpina (Bladderwort) · U. alpina 'Pittier Moon' · U. alutacea · U. amazonasana · U. ambigua · U. amethystina (Florida Purple Bladderwort) · U. amoena · U. andicola · U. andongensis · U. angolensis · U. angulosa · U. angustifolia · U. anomala · U. antennifera · U. anthropophora · U. antirrhinoides · U. aphylla · U. appendiculata · U. appressa · U. arcuata · U. arenaria · U. arenicola · U. arnhemica · U. arrojadensis · U. asplundia · U. asplundii · U. aurea · U. aureola · U. aureolimba · U. aureomaculata · U. australis (Bladderwort) · U. australis f. fixa · U. australis f. tenuicaulis · U. ayacuchae · U. babui · U. baldwinii · U. bangweolensis · U. baouleensis · U. baoulensis · U. barbata · U. baueri · U. baumii · U. beaugleholei · U. benjaminiana · U. benthamii · U. bicolor · U. bidida · U. bifida (Bladderwort) · U. bifidocalcar · U. biflora · U. billardierei · U. biloba · U. biovularioides (Bladderwort) · U. bipartita · U. bisquamata (Bladderwort) · U. bisquamata Schrank 'Hermanus' · U. blancheti · U. blanchetii · U. blanchetti · U. blumei · U. bolivarana · U. bolivariana · U. bosminifera · U. botecudorum · U. brachiata · U. brachyceras · U. brachypoda · U. bracteata · U. bradei · U. bramadensis · U. bremii (Bladderwort) · U. brevicaulis · U. brevicornis · U. brevilabris · U. breviscapa · U. bryophila · U. buntingiana (Bladderwort) · U. butanensis · U. caerulea (Bladderwort) · U. calcyfida · U. calliphysa · U. calumpitensis · U. calycifida (Bladderwort) · U. campbelliana (Bladderwort) · U. campbelliana var. minor · U. campbellianum · U. campestris · U. canacorum · U. capensis

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Further Reading

• A preliminary catalogue of the flora of New Jersey. Comp. by N. L. Britton with the assistance of eminent botanists. New Brunswick, Office of the survey, 1881. ENG url p. 74.
• A botanical survey of the Sugar Grove region / by Robert F. Griggs. Columbus: Ohio State University, 1914. ENG url p. 332.
• A catalogue of the flowering plants and higher cryptogams, both native and introduced, found within about thirty miles of Hanover, N. H., including a few cultivated species, to which is appended a list of vertebrate animals of the same region. By Henry Je [Hanover?]Printed for the Author, 1891. ENG url p. 31.
• A guide and key to the aquatic plants of the Southeastern United States, by Don E. Eyles and Lynne Robertson, Jr. With original drawings by Garnet W. Jex. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1963. ENG url p. 137.
• A naturalist in the Bahamas: John I. Northrop, October 12 1861 - June 25, 1891; a memorial volume, ed., with a biographical introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn. New York, The Columbia university press[c1910] ENG url p. 182.
• An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions: from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian / by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1913. ENG url p. 227.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- ENG url p. 419.
• Annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of New York state, by Homer D. House. Albany, The University of the state of New York, 1924. ENG url p. 632.
• Aquatic and wetland plants of southwestern United States, by Donovan S. Correll and Helen B. Correll. [Washington]Environmental Protection Agency; [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]1972. ENG url p. 1522.
• Botanisches Zentralblatt; referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. Jena [etc.]G. Fischer [etc.] GER url p. 209, p. 308.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 103, p. 177.
• Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles et de Geologie. Paris. url p. 215.
• Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Washington, The Commission, Govt. Print. Off. ENG url p. 260, p. 487.
• Catalog of Ohio vascular plants: arranged according to the phyletic classification: with notes on the geographical distribution in the state, based mainly on specimens in the State Herbarium, Botanical Laboratory, the Ohio State Uni by John H. Schaffner Columbus: Ohio State University, 1914. ENG url p. 214.
• Contributions to the botany of Vermont. Burlington, Vt.: Botanical Dept., University of Vermont, 1898-1911. ENG url p. 78.
• Enumeratio plantarum, vel ab alium vel ab ipso observatum, cum earum differentiis specificis, synonymis selectis et descriptionibus succinctis. Havniae, Impensis auctoris, & prostat apud J.H. Schubothe, 1805-1806. LAT url p. 204.
• Flora Peoriana; the vegetation in the climate of middle Illinois. Peoria, Ill., J. W. Franks, 1887. ENG url p. 86.
• Flora of Delaware and the Eastern Shore: an annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of the peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. [Wilmington]: Society of Natural History of Delaware, 1946. ENG url p. 238.
• Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley, Louis O. Williams, Dorothy Nash Gibson. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1974. ENG url p. 320, p. 324.
• Flora of Indiana, by Charles C. Deam. Indianapolis, Wm. B. Burford printing co., contractor for state printing and binding, 1940. ENG url p. 1090, p. 862, p. 863.
• Flora of Lancaster County; being descriptions of the seed- plants growing naturally in Lancaster County, Pennsylvanial. By John Kunkel Small and Joel Jackson Carter. New York, 1913. ENG url p. 265.
• Flora of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, by L. L. Dame and F. S. Collins. Malden, Middlesex Institute, 1888. ENG url p. 66.
• Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine: a preliminary catalogue of the plants growing on Mount Desert and the adjacent islands / by Edward L. Rand and John H. Redfield; with a geological introduction by William Morris Davis, and a new map of Mount Desert I Cambridge, Mass.: J. Wilson, 1894. ENG url p. 279.
• Flora of Pennsylvania. Edited with the addition of analytical keys by John Kunkel Small. Boston, Ginn & Co., 1903. ENG url p. 285, p. 286.
• Flora of Vermont; a list of the fern and seed plants growing without cultivation. Prepared by Ezra Brainerd, L.R. Jones and W.W. Eggleston, committee for the Vermont botanical club. Burlington, Vt., Free Press Association, 1900. ENG url p. 78.
• Flora of the Indiana dunes, a handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the lake Michigan Coast of Indiana and of the Calumet District, by Donald Culross Peattie. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. ENG url p. 344.
• Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and in Oklahom by John Kunke New York, The author, 1913. ENG url p. 1090, p. 1091.
• Grand Rapids flora: a catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns growing without cultivation in the vicinity of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Grand Rapids, Mich., A. Van Dort, 1901. ENG url p. 138.
• Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 237, p. 529.
• Manual de plantas de Costa Rica /B.E. Hammel [et al.] editores; Silvia Troyo, ilustraciones. 97 2004 St. Louis, Mo.: Missouri Botanical Garden, 2003- SPA url p. 133, p. 136.
• Michigan flora: a list of the fern and seed plants growing without cultivation / prepared by W.J. Beal. [Lansing, Mich.]: State Board of Agriculture: 1904. ENG url p. 121.
• Notes on the flora of western Nova Scotia, 1921 / M.L. Fernald. Cambridge, MA: Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, 1922. ENG url p. 203.
• Plant life of Alabama: an account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state / by Charles Mohr. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1901. ENG url p. 730.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. [Washington, Biological Society of Washington] ENG url p. 180, p. 224, p. 37, p. 50, p. 78.
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• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 315.
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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 30, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 15, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 15, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium
• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea
• Oregon State University, Vascular Plant Collection
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, Royal Botanic Gardens
• SysTax, SysTax
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Vascular Plant Collection - University of Washington Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2656536
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-34452
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13748214
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:526778-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 34452
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 526777-1
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: UTPU3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 67446

Footnotes

1. Mean = 216.220 meters (709.383 feet), Standard Deviation = 411.480 based on 825 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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