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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 12 taxa in the family Alismataceae, Water Plantain family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Southern Water-plantain, American Water-plantain
Look for it in marshes, ponds, stream edges
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain
Look for it in swamps, ditches, wet thickets, esp on base-rich substrates, such as over calcareous or mafic rocks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in tidal marshes and mud flats
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Grassleaf Arrowhead, Grassy Arrowhead
Look for it in marshes, ponds, tidal areas
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in fresh to brackish marshes, tidal cypress-gum swamps, streambanks, pineland pools
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bunched Arrowhead
Look for it in bogs, ditches adjacent to drained bogs, wooded seepage areas
Rare, endemic to a several-county area in sw. NC & nw. SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Depression Meadow Arrowhead, Quillwort Arrowhead
Look for it in pineland ponds, clay-based Carolina bays, other seasonally flooded depressions
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Duck Potato
Look for it in marshes, swamps
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Duck Potato
Look for it in freshwater to brackish (mesohaline) tidal marshes
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Broadleaf Arrowhead, Duck Potato
Look for it in bogs, marshes, and - in the case of var. latifolia - swamps, farm ponds, ditches
Both varieties common in Mountains, var. pubescens rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Engelmann's arrowhead
Look for it in blackwater streambanks, sphagnum bogs, pocosins, beaver ponds
Uncommon in SC Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in marshes, swamps, rivershores, backwaters, margins of ponds and lakes
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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