Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Orontium aquaticum
FAMILY
Araceae
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Learn more about Orontium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orontium aquaticum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-02-001:
Orontium aquaticum
FAMILY
Araceae
COMMON NAME:
Golden Club, Never-wet, Bog Torches
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JK Marlow jkm060521_125
May Macon County NC
Highlands Biological Station
Fresh leaves are unwettable, silvery glistening if forced under water, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
COMPARE
aquatic plants
JK Marlow jkm060521_131
May Macon County NC
Highlands Biological Station
An erect, conspicuous, golden-yellow clublike spadix (fleshy flower stalk), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
JK Marlow jkm220517_7855
May Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
Fruits partially embedded in spadix, green to blue-green, per Flora of North America.
Frank Holleman fsh_4091
October Greenville County SC
Leaves in a crowded cluster, oval to elliptical, with parallel veins, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast.
JK Marlow jkm211116_5062
November Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
Leaves short-tapered to thick stalks 4-12" long, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Orontium aquaticum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orontium aquaticum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-02-001:
Orontium aquaticum
FAMILY
Araceae