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midwestern arrowhead, short-beak arrowhead

Habit Herbs, perennial, to 70 cm; rhizomes absent; stolons present; corms present.
Leaves

emersed;

petiole terete-ridged, to 39 cm;

blades sagittate, 5–20 × 2–8 cm, basal lobes equal to or less than remainder of blade.

Inflorescences

racemes or panicles, of 5–12 whorls, emersed, 25–30 × 6–15 cm;

peduncles to 45 cm;

bracts distinct or if connate, then less than ¼ total length, long-acuminate, 10–40 mm, firm, not papillose; fruiting pedicels spreading to ascending, cylindric, 1–2.5 cm.

Flowers

to 3.5 cm diam.;

sepals recurved to spreading, not enclosing flower;

filaments cylindric, longer than anthers, glabrous; pistillate pedicellate, without ring of sterile stamens.

Fruiting

heads (1.2–)1.5–2.5 cm diam.;

achenes cuneate-obovoid, without abaxial keel, 2.1–3.1 × 1.4–2.2 mm, beaked;

faces ??, wings 0–2, ± entire, glands absent;

beak lateral, ascending apically, 0.4–1.7 mm.

Missing

datum is whether faces are tuberculate or not;

if datum is not easily available, change wording to near-original "faces with 0–2 wings."

Sagittaria brevirostra

Phenology Flowering summer (Jul–Sep).
Habitat Slightly basic to slightly acidic to alkaline waters of ponds, lakes, and swamps
Elevation 100–�1800 m (300–�5900 ft)
Distribution
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AL; AR; CA; CO; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MI; MN; MO; MS; NE; OH; OK; SD; TX; VA; WI; SK
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Source FNA vol. 22.
Parent taxa Alismataceae > Sagittaria
Sibling taxa
S. ambigua, S. australis, S. cristata, S. cuneata, S. demersa, S. engelmanniana, S. fasciculata, S. filiformis, S. graminea, S. guayanensis, S. isoetiformis, S. kurziana, S. lancifolia, S. latifolia, S. longiloba, S. montevidensis, S. papillosa, S. platyphylla, S. rigida, S. sanfordii, S. secundifolia, S. subulata, S. teres
Synonyms S. engelmanniana subsp. brevirostra
Name authority Mackenzie & Bush: Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 16:102. (1905)
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