Key to Lentibulariaceae

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1. Plant of moist habitats, carnivorous by sticky or slimy leaves; leaves in 

rosette 

A radiating cluster of leaves generally at or near ground level.

, 

simple 

Composed of a single part; undivided; unbranched.

, 

elliptic 

In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear

to 

ovate 

Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.

; corolla (pale) blue-violet, center of lower lip white; calyx upper lip 3-lobed, lower lip 2-lobed; inflorescence 1-flowered, scape succulent, bracts 0 ..... PINGUICULA

1' Plant of moist or aquatic habitats, carnivorous by bladders ± throughout; leaves 

alternate 

1. Arranged singly, often spirally, along an axis - e.g., one leaf per node. 2. Occurring in different ranks, appearing to be between, not directly above or below, as 'stamens alternate petals'.

on 

stolon 

A normally thin, elongate stem lying more or less flat on the ground and forming roots as well as erect stems or shoots (which become new, clonal plants) at generally widely spaced nodes; runner.

, simple or generally dissected into narrow segments; corolla yellow, with red-brown streaks or not; calyx upper lip unlobed, lower lip unlobed; inflorescence a 

raceme 

In flowering plants excluding Asteraceae, Cyperaceae, Poaceae, and some other groups, an unbranched inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on pedicels and nearly always open from the bottom to the top of the inflorescence. 2. In Asteraceae, Cyperaceae, Poaceae, and some other groups, a raceme-like inflorescence is one in which the inflorescence units (e.g., heads in Asteraceae; spikelets in Cyperaceae and Poaceae), instead of individual flowers, are stalked and attached directly to the main axis of the inflorescence, not to branches, and in which floral development may or may not proceed as in 1.

or 1-flowered, scape slender or wiry, bracts present ..... UTRICULARIA

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