Utricularia minor -- (Lesser Bladderwort)


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 Scientific Name:  Utricularia minor
 Common Name:  Lesser Bladderwort
 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  Yellow
 Plant Origin:  Native
 Soil Type prefered:  Sand, Loam, Clay
 Drought Tolerance:  None
 Flower Conspicuous:  Yes
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  Medium
 Moisture Use:  High
 Shade Tolerance:  Intolerant
 Active Growth Period:  Spring, Summer
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  High
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  Low
 Bloom Period:  Summer
 Commercial Availability:  No Known Source
 Cold Stratification Required:  No
 Fall Conspicuous:  No
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  80
 Foliage Color:  Green
 Fruit/Seed Abundance:  Low
 Fruit/Seed Period Begin:  Summer
 Fruit/Seed Conspicuous:  No
 Fruit/Seed Period End:  Fall
 Fruit/Seed Color:  Brown
 Fruit/Seed Persistence:  No
 Fire Tolerance:  High
 Foliage Texture:  Fine
 Growth Form:  Stoloniferous
 Growth Habit:  Forb/herb
 Growth Rate:  Rapid
 Height, Mature (feet):  .2
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Short
 Max. Planting Density/Acre:  4800
 Min. Planting Density/Acre:  2700
 pH (Maximum):  7.5
 pH (Minimum):  6.5
 Precipitation (Minimum):  10
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Root Depth, Min. (inches):  4
 Salt Tolerance:  None
 Shape and Orientation:  Prostrate
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed per Pound:  300000
 Seed Spread Rate:  Slow
 Seedling Vigor:  Low
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -43
 Toxicity:  None
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Propagation:  Cuttings, Seed, Sprigs
 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Scrophulariales
 Family:  Lentibulariaceae
 Genus:  Utricularia

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