3177

Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Monoecious or polygamo-monoecious

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in Coastal Plain)

Look for it in marshes, swamps, rivershores, backwaters, margins of ponds and lakes, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
Petioles to 6 dm long

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Unisexual
3-merous
3 sepals
3 petals
Numerous stamens in staminate flowers
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of Tennessee p336
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p388
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p002

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sagittaria australis   FAMILY Alismataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sagittaria australis   FAMILY Alismataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 027-03-011:
Sagittaria longirostra   FAMILY Alismataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Sagittaria engelmanniana ssp. longirostra

(?) -
Sagittaria longirostra var. australis