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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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Alisma subcordatum FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Alisma subcordatum FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Alisma subcordatum 027-01-001 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: Marshes, ponds, stream edges
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Echinodorus cordifolius FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Echinodorus cordifolius FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Echinodorus cordifolius 027-02-001 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: Swamps, ditches, wet thickets, especially on base-rich substrates, such as over calcareous or mafic rocks
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Dwarf Arrowhead, awl-leaf arrowhead
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sagittaria subulata FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria subulata FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria subulata var. subulata 027-03-003 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: Tidal marshes and mud flats
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Grassleaf Arrowhead, Grassy Arrowhead
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sagittaria graminea FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria graminea var. graminea FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria graminea var. graminea 027-03-004a FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: Marshes, ponds, freshwater and oligohaline tidal marshes
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Weatherby’s Arrowhead
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sagittaria weatherbiana FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria graminea var. weatherbiana FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria graminea var. weatherbiana 027-03-004b FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: 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
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sagittaria fasciculata FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria fasciculata FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria fasciculata 027-03-005 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: 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
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sagittaria isoetiformis FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria isoetiformis FAMILY: Alismataceae
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria teres 027-03-006 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: 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
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sagittaria lancifolia var. lancifolia FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. lancifolia FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria lancifolia 027-03-007 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: Marshes, swamps
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Duck Potato
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sagittaria lancifolia var. media FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria falcata 027-03-008 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: 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
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sagittaria latifolia + FAMILY: Alismataceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria latifolia FAMILY: Alismataceae
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria latifolia + 027-03-009 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Look for it in bogs, marshes, and - in the case of var. latifolia - swamps, farm ponds, ditches
Common (var. pubescens is uncommon in GA Piedmont & NC Coastal Plain, rare in GA & SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Engelmann's arrowhead
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sagittaria engelmanniana FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria engelmanniana FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria engelmanniana 027-03-010 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: Blackwater streambanks, sphagnum bogs, pocosins, beaver ponds
Uncommon in SC Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Appalachian Arrowhead, Southern Arrowhead, Longbeak Arrowhead
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sagittaria australis FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sagittaria australis FAMILY: Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sagittaria longirostra 027-03-011 FAMILY: Alismataceae
Habitat: Marshes, swamps, rivershores, backwaters, margins of ponds and lakes
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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