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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Peltandra sagittifolia
FAMILY
Araceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Peltandra from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Peltandra sagittifolia
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Peltandra sagittifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Peltandra sagittifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-04-002:
Peltandra sagittaefolia FAMILY Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Peltandra glauca
COMMON NAME:
White Arrow-arum, White Arum, Spoonflower
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JK Marlow jkm060423_022
April Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Grows in sphagnum openings in pocossins, per Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmpeltandra_sag
May Pickens County SC
SC Botanical Garden
Spathe tube light green inside & out, closed; spathe blade white, widely open, per Flora of North America.
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John B. Nelson jbn_159981373_8d3f87bf89
June Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Perennial with arrow-shaped leaves, vegetatively similar to P. virginica, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_sagittifolia_2
July
Inflorescence a spadix subtended by a flared, open, white spathe, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_sagittifolia_5
July
Leaf blade smaller on average and less variable in shape than P. virginica, per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
Arrowhead, Arum, Elephant's Ear and Pickerelweed
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Peltandra sagittifolia
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Peltandra sagittifolia
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Peltandra sagittifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Peltandra sagittifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-04-002:
Peltandra sagittaefolia
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Peltandra glauca
1041
Forb
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: pocosins of the outer Coastal Plain, sphagnous swamps. Peaty ecotones between bayheads and seepage slopes (Coleataenia abscissa/Magnolia virginiana bayhead ecotones in c. FL). Typically in wet, mucky, sphagnous, or otherwise deeply saturated soils often with some standing water, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Summer
White
Unisexual
Inflorescence a spadix
FRUIT:
Summer
Red
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p185
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p312
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p421
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p474
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p118
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p156
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p010
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p365
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