Utricularia macrorhiza:
I suppose you won't be surprised that I found
this species. After all, in suitable habitats all this plant needs to thrive is deep water.
However, it was surprisingly rare. The only plants I found were not near
the Sphagnum mat, nor were they in the open water at the center of the lake. Instead, they were hidden
along the shoreline and tucked among the sedges in several
cm of water--veritable leech-havens. I also found, floating in the water, a dead predatory diving beetle that, I swear,
was about 5cm long. Egads!
