Sagittaria latifolia |
Sagittaria cuneata |
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bird's-eye pearlwort, broad-leaf arrowhead, common arrowhead, duck-potato, Indian potato, sagittaire latifoliee, wapato |
arum-leaf arrowhead, northern arrowhead, sagittaria cuneaire, tule potato, wapato |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, to 45 cm; rhizomes absent; stolons present; corms present. | Herbs, perennial, to 110 cm; rhizomes absent; stolons present; corms present. |
Leaves | emersed; petiole triangular, erect to ascending, 6.5–51 cm; blade sagittate, rarely hastate, 1.5–30.5 × 2–17 cm, basal lobes equal to or less than remainder of blade. |
emersed, floating, and submersed; submersed phyllodial, flattened, to 45 cm; floating with petiole triangular, to 100 cm, blade cordate or sagittate, rarely linear or ovate, 7.5–9 × 3.5–4 cm; emersed with petiole recurved, 3.5–51 cm, blade linear to sagittate, 2.5–17 × 1.5–11 cm, basal lobes when present shorter than remainder of blade. |
Inflorescences | racemes, rarely panicles, of 3–9 whorls, emersed, 4.5–28.5 × 4–23 cm; peduncles 10–59 cm; bracts connate more than or equal to ¼ total length, elliptic to lanceolate, 3–8 mm, delicate, not papillose; fruiting pedicels spreading, cylindric, 0.5–3.5 cm. |
racemes, rarely panicles, of 2–10 whorls, emersed, 14–21 × 2–10 cm, peduncle triangular, 10–50 cm; bracts connate more than or equal to ¼ total length, lance-attenuate or acute, mostly (4–)7–40 mm, membranous, not papillose; fruiting pedicels ascending, cylindric, 0.5–2 cm. |
Flowers | to 4 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 25 mm diam.; sepals recurved, not enclosing flower or fruiting head; filaments not dilated, equal to or longer than anthers, glabrous; pistillate pedicellate, without ring of sterile stamens. |
Fruiting | heads 1–1.7 cm diam; achenes oblanceoloid, without abaxial keel, 2.5–3.5 × to 2 mm, beaked; faces not tuberculate, wings absent, glands (0–)1(–2); beak lateral, horizontal, 1–2 mm. |
heads 0.8–1.5 cm diam.; achenes obovoid, abaxially keeled, 1.8–2.6 × 1.3–2.5 mm, beaked; face not tuberculate, wings 0–1, ± entire, glands 0–1; beak apical, erect, 0.1–0.4 mm. |
2n | = 22. |
= 22. |
Sagittaria latifolia |
Sagittaria cuneata |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. | Flowering late spring–summer (Jun–Sep). |
Habitat | Wet ditches, pools, and margins of streams and lakes | Calcareous and muddy shores and shallow waters of rivers, lakes, ponds, pastures, and ditches, occasional in tidal waters, or in deep flowing water with slow current |
Elevation | 0–1500 m (0–4900 ft) | 100–2500 m (300–8200 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; AB; BC; MB; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC; SK; c Mexico; s Mexico; Central America (Guatemala); South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela)
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AK; AZ; CA; CO; CT; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; SD; TX; UT; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; LB; MB; NB; NS; NT; ON; QC; SK; YT
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Discussion | Sagittaria latifolia has been divided into numerous species and varieties. It was divided into two varieties, based upon the presence of pubescence over the entire vegetative plant (C. Bogin 1955; K. Rataj 1972). We have examined numerous specimens and found that many from the southeastern United States are pubescent; we believe that this character alone is insufficient for recognition of the varieties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Sagittaria cuneata is extremely variable. On emersed plants, the leaf petioles are often bent toward the ground. Submersed plants often grow from a basal rosette with a long flexuous petiole and a floating sagittate leave. Plants in deep rivers often develop broad, straplike phyllodia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
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Synonyms | S. latifolia var. obtusa, S. latifolia var. pubescens, S. ornithorhyncha, S. planipes, S. pubescens, S. viscosa | S. arifolia |
Name authority | Willdenow: Sp. Pl. 4(1): 409. (1805) | E. Sheldon: Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 20:283, plate 159. (1893) |
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