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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pontederia cordata var. lancifolia
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Pickerelweed from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
P. cordata exhibits tristyly, an interesting breeding system. Each plant has one of 3 types of flowers: (a) a short style, 3 medium and 3 long stamens, (b) a medium style, 3 short and 3 long stamens, or (c) a long style, 3 short and 3 medium stamens, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pontederia cordata
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pontederia cordata
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Pontederia cordata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Pontederia cordata var. lancifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 039-02-001?:
Pontederia cordata FAMILY Pontederiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pontederia lanceolata
COMMON NAME:
Lanceleaf Pickerelweed
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JK Marlow jkm160416_303
April Lowndes County GA
Found in marshes, pond and lake shores of the Coastal Plain, per Weakley's Flora.
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Dan Whitten sdw_pontederia
May Georgetown County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_cordata_lance_4
July
Each plant produces a 5" spike of violet-blue flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm0308a_20
August Williamsburg County SC
Leaves lanceolate, the base generally cuneate to truncate, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
COMPARE
Arrowhead, Arum, Elephant's Ear and Pickerelweed
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pontederia cordata var. lancifolia
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pontederia cordata
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pontederia cordata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Pontederia cordata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Pontederia cordata var. lancifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 039-02-001?:
Pontederia cordata
FAMILY
Pontederiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pontederia lanceolata
2696
Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Habitat: marshes, pond-shores, lake-shores, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in GA Coastal Plain (uncommon in SC, rare in NC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Blue
2-lipped 6-lobed funnelform corolla
6 stamens (3 long exserted & 3 short included)
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p185
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p325
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p467
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p158
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p050
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p101
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p160
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p016?
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p417
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p352?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p404?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p005
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