Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Sagittaria lancifolia var. media
FAMILY
Alismataceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This is the familiar, widespread, robust arrowhead species with fairly broad elliptical leaves of our tidal freshwater marshes. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22 (2000)
Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 027-03-008:
Sagittaria falcata FAMILY Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Sagittaria falcata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sagittaria falcata
COMMON NAME:
Scimitar Arrowhead, Bulltongue Arrowhead
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_safa4_001_lvd
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Sam Pratt sbp_082923_3454
August Berkeley County SC
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Will Stuart wil_9580910235_ed319949b8
August Brunswick County NC
Retention pond
Upper flowers are staminate, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).
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Will Stuart wil_9581062135_b379bf52c9
August NC
North Carolina Botanical Garden
Leaves lanceolate to broadly ovate, emersed [rising out of the water], per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
Arrowhead, Arum, Elephant's Ear and Pickerelweed
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Will Stuart wil_9583692870_b
August Brunswick County NC
Retention pond
Flowers in whorls along the stem, the lower pistillate, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).
COMPARE
aquatic plants
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Will Stuart wil_9583694602_c5420cf11a
August Brunswick County NC
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_s_lancifolia_media
October Dare County NC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Sagittaria lancifolia var. media
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22
Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 027-03-008:
Sagittaria falcata
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Sagittaria falcata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sagittaria falcata
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Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Monoecious or polygamo-monoecious
Habitat: Freshwater to brackish (mesohaline) tidal marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
Leaf blade lanceolate to broadly ovate
Petioles 44–58cm long, terete
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes present (coarse); stolons absent; corms absent
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
3-merous
3 sepals
3 petals
Numerous stamens in staminate flowers
Superior ovary
Unisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama (Lovell, 2007) p32
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p469
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p098
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p102?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p003
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p360
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