Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Commelinales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Pontederia cordata var. cordata
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
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Learn more about Pickerelweed from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pontederia cordata
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 039-02-001:
Pontederia cordata
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pontederia cordata
COMMON NAME:
Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_poco14_007_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm080517_107
May Aiken County SC
Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve
Lvs mostly ovate to triangular-lanceolate, base generally cordate or truncate, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
leaves of Arrowhead, Arum, Elephant's Ear and Pickerelweed
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JK Marlow jkm080517_181
May Edgefield County SC
Often in dense colonies, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm080517_185
May Edgefield County SC
Inflorescence a dense terminal spike-like panicle, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
COMPARE
aquatic plants
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JK Marlow s080517_a
May Edgefield County SC
Leaves basally sheathing, petiolate, and parallel curved-convergent veined, per Plant Systematics.
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JK Marlow jkm060808_019
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm090815_128
August Greenville County SC
Beaverpond & adjacent land
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_cordata_cordata
August
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_cordata_cordatab
August
Flowers 2-lipped, each lip 3-lobed, the upper lip marked with yellow, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Pontederia cordata var. cordata
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pontederia cordata
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 039-02-001:
Pontederia cordata
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pontederia cordata
1137
Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Habitat: swamps, seepage areas, marshes, pond-shores, lake-shores, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Blue
Bisexual
2-lipped 6-lobed funnelform corolla
6 stamens (3 long exserted & 3 short included)
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama p31
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p185
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p162
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p324
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p158
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p050
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p400
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p101
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p160
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p015
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p016
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p352
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p404?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p005
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p292