Fringed bladderwort facts for kids

The fringed bladderwort, also known as Utricularia simulans, is a very interesting plant. It's a small to medium-sized carnivorous plant, which means it catches and eats tiny living things. This plant can live for many years, so it's called a perennial plant.

U. simulans is found naturally in warm, tropical parts of Africa and the Americas. It grows on land in wet, sandy soil. You can often spot it in open grasslands called savannas. It can grow from areas near the sea all the way up to mountains, as high as 1,575 meters (about 5,167 feet) above sea level.

A scientist named Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger was the first to describe and officially name this plant in 1914.

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In Spanish: Utricularia simulans para niños