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Very nice collection Rich!

Thanks!

I found out what those yellow flowers are. It's a form of terrestrial bladderwort. Which interestingly enough is another type of carnivorous plant. So I'm glad I didn't pull them all out of there thinking they were just some sort of weed trying to take over. Actually, Connie liked them, and I probably would have had a fight on my hands had I said I was going to do that.

Yeah. I thought they were a bladderwort, but didn't want to speak out of turn in case they weren't. I read the answer on the Fauna thread, the guy also said that they can become weedy.. So you may end up having to pull a few... Bladderworts are pretty sweet...

There is a type of desert carnivorous plant that eats nematodes with the small traps it has underground... It's pretty interesting.

I had no idea that bladderworts came in terrestrial varieties. I thought they were all aquatic. Consequently I had no interest in them at all. Heck, having some that would eat nematodes would be pretty handy to have, as nematodes can be a real pest in the garden. But would they survive in the enrichened soil of a typical garden plot?

Not sure, I don't think so.

They are so cool! I'm glad they are doing well for you this spring, so I can enjoy them vicariously through your photos!

I believe that for Bladderworts terrestrial is relative. Those that you have enjoy the "terestrial-ness" of your bog garden, instead of being floating plants in ponds that many of the bladderworts are.