Sagittaria longiloba |
Alismataceae |
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Gregg arrowhead, long lobed arrowhead, long-barb arrowhead, longlobe arrowhead |
arrowhead family, water-plantain family |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, to 100 cm; rhizomes absent; stolons present; corms present. | Herbs, annual or perennial, rhizomatous, stoloniferous, or cormose, caulescent, glabrous to stellate-pubescent; sap milky. | ||||||||||||
Roots | septate or not septate. |
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Leaves | 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. |
basal, submersed, floating, or emersed, sessile or petiolate, sheathing proximally; blade with translucent markings of dots or lines present or absent, basal lobes present or absent; venation reticulate, primary veins parallel from base of blade to apex, secondary veins reticulate. |
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Inflorescences | 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. |
scapose racemes or panicles, rarely umbels, erect, rarely floating or decumbent, whorled (forming racemes) or whorls branching (forming panicles), bracteolate. |
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Flowers | 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. |
bisexual or unisexual, if unisexual, staminate and pistillate on same or different plants, hypogynous, subsessile to long-pedicellate; sepals persistent, 3; petals deciduous, 3, delicate; stamens 0, 6, 9, or to 30, distinct; anthers 2-loculed, dehiscing longitudinally; pistils 0 or 6–1500 or more, distinct or coherent proximally, 1-loculed; placentation basal; ovules1–2. |
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Fruits | achenes or follicles. |
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Seeds | embryo U-shaped; endosperm absent in mature seed. |
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Fruiting | 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. |
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Sagittaria longiloba |
Alismataceae |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Wet ditches, ephermeral pools, and margins of streams and lakes | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 0–300 m (0–1000 ft) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; KS; NE; OK; TX; Mexico; Central America (Nicaragua)
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Nearly worldwide; primarily tropical and subtropical regions |
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Discussion | Genera 12, species ca. 80 (4 genera, 34 species in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22, p. 7. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Alismataceae > Sagittaria | |||||||||||||
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Synonyms | S. greggii | |||||||||||||
Name authority | Engelmann ex J. G. Smith: N. Amer. Sagittaria. 16, plate 11. (1894) | Ventenat | ||||||||||||
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