Sagittaria australis |
Sagittaria longiloba |
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Appalachian arrowhead, longbeak arrowhead |
Gregg arrowhead, long lobed arrowhead, long-barb arrowhead, longlobe arrowhead |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, to 130 cm; rhizomes absent; stolons present; corms present. | Herbs, perennial, to 100 cm; rhizomes absent; stolons present; corms present. |
Leaves | emersed; petiole 5-winged, 19–85 cm; blade sagittate, 3–19 × 2.5–11 cm, basal lobes ± equal to remainder of blade. |
emersed; petiole 5-ridged, ascending to erect, 24.5–60 cm; blade sagittate, 11.5–26.5 × 0.8–15 cm, basal lobes longer than remainder of blade. |
Inflorescences | racemes, of 5–12 whorls, emersed, 10–29 × 3–5 cm; peduncles 25–105 cm; bracts distinct or if connate, then less than ¼ total length, lanceolate, 7–30 mm, papery, not papillose; fruiting pedicels spreading to ascending, cylindric, 0.3–2.3 cm. |
racemes, rarely panicles, of 5–17 whorls, emersed, 20–37 × 5–27 cm; peduncles 25–96 cm; bracts connate more than or equal to ¼ total length, lanceolate, 6.5–15 mm, delicate, not papillose; fruiting pedicels spreading, cylindric, 1.5–4.4 cm. |
Flowers | to 3 cm diam.; sepals recurved to spreading, not enclosing flower or fruiting head; filaments cylindric, longer than anthers, glabrous; pistillate pedicellate, without ring of sterile stamens. |
to 3 cm diam.; sepals recurved to spreading, not enclosing flower; filaments cylindric, shorter than anthers, glabrous; pistillate flowers pedicellate, without ring of sterile stamens. |
Fruiting | heads 1–2.2 cm diam.; achenes obovoid, without abaxial keel, 2.1–3.2 × 1.4–2.3 mm, beaked; faces not tuberculate, wings 0–2, ± entire, glands absent; beak lateral, strongly recurved, 4–17 mm. |
heads 0.9–1.5 cm diam; achenes oblanceoloid, abaxially keeled, 1.2–2.5 × 0.8–1.6 mm, beaked; faces tuberculate, wings absent, glands 0–1; beak lateral, erect, 0.1–0.6 mm. |
2n | = 22. |
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Sagittaria australis |
Sagittaria longiloba |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–early fall (Jul–Oct). | Flowering summer–fall. |
Habitat | Slightly basic to slightly acidic ponds, lakes, and swamps | Wet ditches, ephermeral pools, and margins of streams and lakes |
Elevation | 1–300 m (0–1000 ft) | 0–300 m (0–1000 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; PA; SC; TN; VA; WV
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AZ; CA; KS; NE; OK; TX; Mexico; Central America (Nicaragua)
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Discussion | The name Sagittaria longirostra (Micheli) J. G. Smith has been misapplied to S. australis (J. G. Smith) Small (E. O. Beal et al. 1980). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
Parent taxa | Alismataceae > Sagittaria | Alismataceae > Sagittaria |
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Synonyms | S. longirostra var. australis, S. engelmanniana subsp. longirostra | S. greggii |
Name authority | (J. G. Smith) Small: Flora of the Southeastern United States 45. (1903) | Engelmann ex J. G. Smith: N. Amer. Sagittaria. 16, plate 11. (1894) |
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