Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Orontium aquaticum
FAMILY
Araceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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
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_oraq_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_o_aquaticum_4324
April Lexington County SC
Congaree Creek Heritage Preserve
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Keith Bradley kab_o_aquaticum_4332
April Lexington County SC
Congaree Creek Heritage Preserve
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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
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm220517_7851
May Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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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.
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm211116_5060
November Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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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
992
Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Look for it generally in peaty & stagnant water, such as beaver ponds, blackwater streams, swamps, pools in low pocosins, streambeds in Piedmont, bogs & swamps in the mountains, 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
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal cluster
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
Inflorescence a spadix
FRUIT:
Spring
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p210
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p167
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p184
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p154
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p331
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p336
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p313
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p121
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p156
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p009
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p008
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p339
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p391
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p004
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p280