New York Natural Heritage Program
Small Floating Bladderwort
Utricularia radiata Small
Dicots

Habitat [-]
In New York most sites for this species are small, shallow ponds, often surrounded by pine barrens. However it also has been discovered in artificial pools, gravel pits, and beaver ponds, including some sites that are eutrifying and/or dominated by exotics (New York Natural Heritage Program 2007). Ponds and sluggish waters (Fernald 1970). In ponds along or near coastal plain (Gleason & Cronquist 1991). Ponds, lakes, swamps, and drainage ditches (Garrett et al 2000).

Associated Ecological Communities [-]
  • Coastal plain pond
    The aquatic community of the permanently flooded portion of a coastal plain pond with seasonally, and annually fluctuating water levels. These are shallow, groundwater-fed ponds that occur in kettle-holes or shallow depressions in the outwash plains south of the terminal moraines of Long Island, and New England. A series of coastal plain ponds are often hydrologically connected, either by groundwater, or sometimes by surface flow in a small coastal plain stream.
  • Eutrophic pond
    The aquatic community of a small, shallow, nutrient-rich pond. The water is usually green with algae, and the bottom is mucky. Eutrophic ponds are too shallow to remain stratified throughout the summer; they are winter-stratified, monomictic ponds.
  • Pine barrens vernal pond*
    A seasonally fluctuating pond and its associated wetlands that typically occurs in pine barrens. The water is intermittent, usually a pond in the spring but sometimes losing water through the summer to become a mostly vegetated wetland at the end of the summer. These ponds and wetlands may be small.

    * probable association but not confirmed

Associated Species [-]
  • Water-shield (Brasenia schreberi)
  • Rose Coreopsis (Coreopsis rosea)
  • Robbins Spikerush (Eleocharis robbinsii)
  • Seven-angle Pipewort (Eriocaulon aquaticum)
  • Slender Flattop Goldenrod (Euthamia caroliniana)
  • Canada Manna-grass (Glyceria canadensis)
  • Golden Hedge-hyssop (Gratiola aurea)
  • Canada Rush (Juncus canadensis)
  • Bayonet Rush (Juncus militaris)
  • Brown-fruited Rush (Juncus pelocarpus)
  • American White Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata)
  • Common Reed (Phragmites australis)
  • Virginia Meadow-beauty (Rhexia virginica)
  • Horned Beakrush (Rhynchospora capillacea)
  • Cottongrass Bulrush (Scirpus cyperinus)
  • Broad-leaf Cattail (Typha latifolia)