The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 349
THE PTERIDOPHYTA AND SPERMATOPHYTA OF ICELAND
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Life-form: H.
On damp peaty soil, in bogs and swamps; on grassy slopes, rocks, moist gravelly
soil; in meadows and heaths ; even in Salix-copses; in lava-fields.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. (VII—VIII).
Max. height: (flowering scapes) 15 cm; average: 7 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: From Labrador to Aleutian islands, southward to Wash. and
New Hampshire.—Greenl.: W. 60°—71°33'. E. 60°—73°10'.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.;
from northernmost Scandinavia throughout most of Eur.—Asia: Baikal, Kamchatka,
Kuriles, Japan.
367. Utricularia minor Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753), p. 18.
Rostrup, 1887, p. 178.—Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 173.—Ibid., ed. 2,
1924, p. 195.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 128.
Flora Dan. tab. 128.
Icelandic: Blöðrujurt. Danish : Liden Blærerod. English: Smaller Bladderwort.
This species was first found by A. Feddersen in 1886 at Litla Laxá (Minni
Laxá) in S.; it has now been found in a good many places throughout the
lowland, see fig. 159. It is usually sterile, but flowering specimens have been found
at least in two places: at Hólar in Reykjadalur, N. (cp. St.St., 1919, p. 40) and at
Þinganes in Homafjörður, S.E. (cp. I.Ó., 1937a, p. 42). H.J. (1909, p. 33) mentions
it as occurring in abundance in pools in a moor near the Högnastaðir springs at
Litla Laxá; probably the same locality where Feddersen first found it.
It is evidently very often overlooked because it is often growing with its slender
stems intervowen between the mosses, and very rarely produces flowering stems
showing above the moss carpet.
Fig. 159. Utricularia minor L.