Utricularia resupinata, the lavender bladderwort or northeastern bladderwort, is a small perennial

Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...

 affixed subaquatic carnivorous plant

Carnivorous plant

Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants appear adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic...

 that belongs to the genus

Genus

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 Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae

Lentibulariaceae

Lentibulariaceae is a family of carnivorous plants containing three genera, Genlisea, the corkscrew plants, Pinguicula, the butterworts, and Utricularia, the bladderworts....

). It is native to eastern Canada

Canada

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, United States

United States

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, and Central America

Central America

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. In its northern range it appears to only flower when low water levels occur at the same time as higher than average temperatures. It was previously thought to be extirpated

Local extinction

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 in Indiana

Indiana

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until it was rediscovered in 2005.