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 ZIP codes with habitat recommendations from the Monroe County Keys north to Martin and Charlotte counties.
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.
