bladderworts in English

noun
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an aquatic plant of north temperate regions with small air-filled bladders that keep the plant afloat and trap tiny animals that provide additional nutrients.
Lakes and ponds have buttonbush, pickerel weed, horned bladderwort and water milfoil growing in the water.

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1. Bladderworts make up the largest genus …

2. Bladderworts are Utricularia, a genus of carnivorous plants

3. Utricularia otherwise known as "Bladderworts" are rootless aquatic, semi terrestrial and also

4. Bladderworts (Utricularia) are the strangest and probably the most highly developed plants in the world

5. Bladderworts (Utricularia spp.) are rootless plants with long, leafless stems that extend prominently above the water

6. There are hundreds of different varieties of Bladderworts but they all function in basically the same way

7. They photosynthesize and produce flowers – and that’s about where the similarities between Bladderworts and plants, in general, end

8. When hungry, Bladderworts secrete irresistible smells from the sac-like structures attached to their underwater mass of roots

9. Bladderworts can capture insect’s larva, aquatic worms, and other small swimmers, and are named for the bladders on their leaves used to float the plant.

10. Bladderworts are about 8 inches tall and lack roots but have flowers on erect stems above the water. They often have small flowers on a frail stem just a few centimeters above the surface

11. Aquatic, meat-eating bladderworts are among the world's best suckers and they have just been named the fastest trapping carnivorous plants, according to a Proceedings of the Royal Society B study.