Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Peltandra virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
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 virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-04-001:
Peltandra virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
COMMON NAME:
Green Arrow-arum, Tuckahoe
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pevi_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_pevi_006_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm070328_002
March Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm070328_019
March Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm080517_096
May Aiken County SC
Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm080517_116
May Aiken County SC
Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve
The spadix is enclosed within a green sheathlike envelope (spathe), per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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JK Marlow jkm210507_0123
May Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
Foliage suggests that of Sagittaria latifolia, but leaves pinnately veined, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
COMPARE
leaves of Arrowhead, Arum, Elephant's Ear and Pickerelweed
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JK Marlow jkm060619_003
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm080611_049
June Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park
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JK Marlow jkm210603_0984
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
The tiny flowers grow densely on a yellow cylindrical stalk (spadix), per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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JK Marlow jkm210603_0986
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm060808_020
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0210d_01
October Greenville County SC
Furman University
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Peltandra virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Peltandra virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-04-001:
Peltandra virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
1042
Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Monoecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in Mountains)
Look for it in marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Aquatic
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellowish
Unisexual
Calyx absent
Petals absent
Inflorescence a spadix
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Greenish/Blackish
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama p28
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p185
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p156
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p020
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p313
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p099
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p156
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p011
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p010
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p339
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p391
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p003
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p293