A carnivorous bladderwort floating in the flood waters of the Amazon River in Colombia. It is known as Soldadito (little soldier) for its upright stature. In context at www.dixpix.ca/Amazon/flora/lamiales/index.html
2011-06-28 Vienna XXII. district (Danube-Oder canal, 150 msm Quadrant 7865/1).German name: Gross-WasserschlauchID (provisionally): Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd); I really should re-check for all relevant features of this one again, but I think what we've got here indeed is the rarer cousin of Utricularia vulgaris. Update 2011-12-17: I checked on that one some weeks after the photo was taken, and could confirm U. australis. The leaves you can see in front of the flower are of course of Myriophyllum spicatum; only to the left you can just make out some Utricularia leaves.
2010.07.11 N, Schrems (pond in abandoned peat-ditch, 539 m AMSL).Rare.Flowering from june till august.German name: Klein-WasserschlauchID: Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd); see also leaves of other specimens in the very same habitat here and here; and see also remarks here, another specimen of the same species in another habitat which lies close to this one; here too I had to make an educated guess - but it's relatively safe to assume that both are of the same species, and that both are U. minor.
2010.06.30 Vienna XXII. (Lobau bayou - standing water, 152 m AMSL).Note shape of (young!) flowers: the lower lip's edges are turned down; older flowers flatten out. This is a feature distinctive for this species.German name: Gewhnlich-WasserschlauchID: Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd)
Yesterday we visited a spot we haven't been to for a number of years and were very happy to see most of the area hadn't changed much. It was a magnificent sight. One of the highlights is the masses of Utricularia petertaylorii flowering along the damp edges of a granite rock sheet. Photos: Fred
Heathcote National Park, southern outskirts of Sydney, New South Wales. Track from Waterfall Station to Kingfisher Pool.Growing in drying mud on top of moist sand, in pothole in sandstone stream bed, among Juncus acuminatus and J. prismatocarpus.
Summary[edit] Description: Native, warm season, perennial, suspended aquatic, carnivorous herb. Leaves are semicircular in outline, 1–8 cm long, multipinnate with 3–5 primary segments and have traps. Flowerheads are erect, emergent racemes, 5–25 cm long and 5–10-flowered. Corollas are 10–15 mm long, pale yellow with reddish brown veins and externally sparsely to densely hairy; the spur is cylindrical and about as long as the lower lip. Flowering is in May. Grows in lakes, pools and swamps, in still or slowly flowing water. Date: 14 March 2005, 10:30. Source: Utricularia aurea flower3 NC. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location 31° 06′ 38.47″ S, 152° 56′ 02.16″ E: View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: -31.110686; 152.933933.