Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Alisma subcordatum
FAMILY
Alismataceae
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Learn more about Alisma from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Alisma subcordatum
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Alisma subcordatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Alisma subcordatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 027-01-001:
Alisma subcordatum FAMILY Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Alisma subcordatum
COMMON NAME:
Southern Water-plantain, American Water-plantain
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_alsu_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_alsu_005_lvd
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Frank Bridges fab_waterplantainflower
June Cobb County GA
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
The inflorescence to 24" long, of numerous whorled panicled branches, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Frank Bridges fab_waterplantainflowerb
June Cobb County GA
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
Three whitish petals & many ovaries in a circle on a flattened receptacle, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
COMPARE
aquatic plants
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Alisma subcordatum
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Alisma subcordatum
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Alisma subcordatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Alisma subcordatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 027-01-001:
Alisma subcordatum
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Alisma subcordatum
2213
Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Habitat: marshes, ponds, stream edges, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
3-merous
3 persistent sepals
3 deciduous petals
6-9 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p096
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p359
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p335
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p387
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p002
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