General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts.
Description: Submerged or floating aquatic wildflower.
Dimensions: N/A; submerged or floating aquatic.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Eastern and central North America south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland; West Indies, Mexico and Central America.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Swamps and marshes.
Soils: Wet, poorly-drained to permanantly innundated calcareous or organic soils.
Nutritional Requirements: High; requires rich organic soils for optimal growth.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance: Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements: Full sun.
Flower Color: Purple.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy.
Flowering Season: All year.
Fruit: Inconspicuous capsule.
Comments: See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page and a 2018 post on the
Treasure Coast Natives blog on Eastern purple bladderwort's carnivorous traps.
