This exquisitely beautiful and sunny common bladderwort has the unfortunate scientific name of Utricularia vulgaris. Vulgar it is not, but the reference is to its common-ness.
a large widely distributed genus of aquatic plants (family Lentibulariaceae) having saclike ascidia that serve as animal traps, floating stems with finely dissected leaves, and scapose often showy flowers with a very irregular spurred bilabiate corolla.
(Merriam Webster)
Saclike ascidia! Scapose flowers! Irregular spurred bilabiate corolla! Okay. To me the flower in profile looks like the cartoon character Daffy Duck.
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