BOTANICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
SPECIES: Utricularia intermedia | Mountain Bladderwort 



GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS : 
Mountain bladderwort is a submersed plant that creeps along the water
bottom.  It has slender stems and leaves up to 1 inch (0.5-2 cm ) long.
The winter buds are ovoid or ellipsoid and 5 to 7 mm long.  The
zygomorphic flower is spurred with a yellow corrolla [3].


RAUNKIAER LIFE FORM : 
   Undisturbed State:  Cryptophyte (geophyte)
   Burned or Clipped State:  Cryptophyte (geophyte)


REGENERATION PROCESSES : 
NO-ENTRY


SITE CHARACTERISTICS : 
Mountain bladderwort grows in shallow, standing or slowly moving water,
including ponds, bogs, swamps, and lakeshores [3,7,10].


SUCCESSIONAL STATUS : 
NO-ENTRY


SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT : 
Mountain bladderwort flowers in July and August in the Northwest [3] and
from early June to early August in the Northeast [7].

Related categories for Species: Utricularia intermedia | Mountain Bladderwort