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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Peltandra virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
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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 Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Peltandra virginica
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Peltandra virginica
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-04-001:
Peltandra virginica FAMILY Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Peltandra virginica
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 (Sorrie, 2011).
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JK Marlow jkm210507_0123
May Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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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 (Sorrie, 2011).
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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 jkm230809_4920
August Greenville County SC
Core Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
Foliage suggests that of Sagittaria latifolia, but leaves pinnately veined, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
COMPARE
Arrowhead, Arum, Elephant's Ear and Pickerelweed
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JK Marlow jkm230809_4920b
August Greenville County SC
Core Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
Leaves with 3 main nerves and netted and parallel side veins, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm230809_4949
August Greenville County SC
Core Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm0210d_01
October Greenville County SC
Furman University
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Peltandra virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Peltandra virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Peltandra virginica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Peltandra virginica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-04-001:
Peltandra virginica
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Peltandra virginica
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Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations, freshwater to oligohaline tidal marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in Mountains)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellowish
Calyx absent
Petals absent
Unisexual
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 (Lovell, 2007) p28
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p185
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p156
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p474
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p020
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p313
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p099
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p156
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p010
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p365
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p339
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p391
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p003
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p293
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