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Annual, perennial herb, carnivorous, of moist or aquatic habitats.
Stem: caudex or stolon, then often with thread-like branches.
Leaf: simple, in rosette, or simple or dissected, emerging from caudex or stolon, with minute, carnivorous bladders ± throughout.
Inflorescence: raceme or 1-flowered, scapose.
Flower: bisexual; calyx lips 2[4], upper 3-lobed, lower 2-lobed, or lips unlobed; corolla 2-lipped, spurred at base, lower lip flat or arched upward, blocking throat or not; stamens 2, epipetalous; ovary superior, chamber 1, placenta generally free-central; stigma unequally 2-lobed, ± sessile.
Fruit: capsule, round, 2-valved, circumscissile, or irregularly dehiscent.
Seed: generally many, small.
3 genera, 330 species: worldwide, especially tropics. [Rice 2006 Growing Carnivorous Plants. Timber Press] —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.

Key to Lentibulariaceae

Perennial [( annual)] of moist habitats; carnivorous by sticky or slimy leaves.
Stem: caudex.
Leaf: simple, in rosette, fleshy; margins entire, incurving over trapped prey or not; adaxially with stalked glands that capture small organisms, sessile glands that digest them.
Inflorescence: 1-flowered [rarely 2-flowered]; scape succulent, glandular, bracts 0.
Flower: calyx upper lip 3-lobed, lower lip 2-lobed; corolla lower lip often hairy, generally not blocking throat.
Fruit: 2-valved.
± 92 species: Am, Eur, Medit. (Latin: ± fat, from leaf surface)

Leaf: 2–5 cm, elliptic to ovate, green to dark brown.
Inflorescence: 1–5 per rosette, 1–2 dm.
Flower: corolla (including spur) 13–21 mm, 5-lobed, (pale) blue-violet, center of lower lip white; lobes obovate, throat hairy, spur 6–9 mm.
2n=64. Moist slopes, cliffs, serpentine banks; < 1830 m. n Klamath Ranges (Del Norte, Siskiyou cos.);

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Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].

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Bioregions in which taxon occurs	Red area (if present) is the part of the bioregion lying between the upper and lower elevation limits of the taxon; markers link to CCH specimen records. If the markers are obscured, reload the page [or change window size and reload]. Yellow markers indicate records that may have georeferencing or identification issues.
Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates.	Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. View all CCH records   CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa. Blue line denotes Manual flowering time.