PLANTS Profile for Utricularia purpurea (eastern purple bladderwort)

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PLANTS Profile

Utricularia purpurea Walter
eastern purple bladderwort

Symbol:

UTPU

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Lentibulariaceae

Duration:

Annual
Perennial

Growth Habit:

Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48		N
CAN		N

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Utricularia purpurea Walter

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Synonyms:
Utricularia purpurea Walter

VEPU4

Vesiculina purpurea (Walter) Raf.

Distribution:
Utricularia purpurea Walter


View Native Status

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:
USA (AL, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, VT, WI), CAN (NB, NF, NS, ON, QC)

Related Taxa:
Utricularia purpurea Walter

View 2 genera in Lentibulariaceae, 27 species in Utricularia

Classification:
Utricularia purpurea Walter

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Scrophulariales
Family	Lentibulariaceae – Bladderwort family
Genus	Utricularia L. – bladderwort
Species	Utricularia purpurea Walter – eastern purple bladderwort

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Utricularia purpurea Walter

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Indiana:
purple bladderwort		Rare
Maryland:
purple bladderwort		Threatened
Pennsylvania:
purple bladderwort		Rare

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Utricularia purpurea Walter

Nat. Ind.

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Reg. 0

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Reg. H

OBL

Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Utricularia purpurea Walter

View species account, photographs, and distribution from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 34461.

View species account from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account and photographs from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium.

Time Generated: 06/20/2013 06:53 AM CDT