General:
Perennial aquatic herb without roots; stems very slender, floating, submerged or creeping along the bottom, leafy, up to 1 m long and 1 mm or more thick.

Leaves:
Alternate, numerous, 1-5 cm long, pinnatifid, divided into 2 parts at the base and then again repeatedly but unequally into more than 20 flattened ultimate segments, the segments circular in cross-section, narrowed and pointed towards the tips, margins bristly; bladders numerous, borne on the leaves and 1-3 mm wide; winter buds egg-shaped or more elliptic, 1-2 cm long, with hyaline bristles.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of 6-20 flowers in lax racemes at the end of stalks 6-20 cm long; corollas yellow, the lower lips saddle-shaped,1-2 cm long with well-developed cylindric spurs, upper lips shorter than the lower lips;

Fruits:
Capsules, stalks down-curved.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Utricularia macrorhiza Leconte