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Habitat: Marshes, ponds, freshwater and oligohaline tidal marshes
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Flowers to 2.3 cm diameter; filaments shorter than anthers, per Flora of North America.
Habitat: Bogs, ditches adjacent to drained bogs, wooded seepage areas
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Flowers usually in 2-4 whorls of 3, upper usually staminate, lower pistillate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Leaves of this Arrowhead are spatulate, consistently lacking basal lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Long parallel veins run almost the entire length of the leaf, per Bunched arrowhead.
Habitat: Marshes, swamps
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Flowers to 3.3 cm diameter; filaments longer than anthers, per Flora of North America.
Habitat: Freshwater to brackish (mesohaline) tidal marshes
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Upper flowers are staminate, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).
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Leaves lanceolate to broadly ovate, emersed [rising out of the water], per Flora of North America.
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Flowers in whorls along the stem, the lower pistillate, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).
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Look for it in bogs, marshes, and - in the case of var. latifolia - swamps, farm ponds, ditches
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Leaves palmately veined; leaf bases with long pointed lobes , per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Showy white flowers with 3 petals, the lower flowers usually female, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).
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Leaf blades of S. latifolia var. pubescens are rather densely fine-pubescent, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
Habitat: Blackwater streambanks, sphagnum bogs, pocosins, beaver ponds
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Leave typically narrowly sagittate, to 8" long, the lobes less than 1" wide, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Flowers 18-25mm across, in 2-4 whorls, female below, male above, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
Habitat: Marshes, swamps, rivershores, backwaters, margins of ponds and lakes
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Inflorescence unbranched; bracts of the inflorescence papery, acuminate at the tip, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Leaves arrowhead-shaped with broad basal lobes, 4-10" long, smooth, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
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Petiole sharply 5-wing-angled in cross-section, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Flowers subtended by bracts that are longer than the pedicels (vs. shorter in S. latifolia), per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
Habitat: Marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations, freshwater to oligohaline tidal marshes
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The tiny flowers grow densely on a yellow cylindrical stalk (spadix), per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Foliage suggests that of Sagittaria latifolia, but leaves pinnately veined, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
Habitat: Pocosins of the outer Coastal Plain, sphagnous swamps. Peaty ecotones between bayheads and seepage slopes (Coleataenia abscissa/Magnolia virginiana bayhead ecotones in c. FL). Typically in wet, mucky, sphagnous, or otherwise deeply saturated soils often with some standing water
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Inflorescence a spadix subtended by a flared, open, white spathe, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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Leaf blade smaller on average and less variable in shape than P. virginica, per Flora of North America.
Habitat: Suburban woodlands, naturalizing from horticultural use
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Spathe tube green, ellipsoid; limb erect, white, oblong-boat-shaped, distinctly constricted, per Flora of China.
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Leaves very large; peltate, base cordate, margin undulate, apex shortly acuminate, per Flora of China.
Habitat: Ditches, shores, bottomland hardwood forests
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Leaves are held on 3' long petioles that attach in the center of the leaf, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2007).
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Leaves shaped like an elephant's ear or a fat arrowhead, 2-3' long, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2007).
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Spathe limb opening only proximally (remainder furled), lanceolate or elliptic, apex acuminate, per Flora of China.
Habitat: Swamps, seepage areas, marshes, pond-shores, lake-shores
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Lvs mostly ovate to triangular-lanceolate, base generally cordate or truncate, per Weakley's Flora.
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Often in dense colonies, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Leaves basally sheathing, petiolate, and parallel curved-convergent veined, per Plant Systematics (Simpson, 2010).
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Flowers 2-lipped, each lip 3-lobed, the upper lip marked with yellow, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
Habitat: Marshes, pond-shores, lake-shores
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Found in marshes, pond and lake shores of the Coastal Plain, per Weakley's Flora.
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Each plant produces a 5" spike of violet-blue flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Leaves lanceolate, the base generally cuneate to truncate, per Weakley's Flora (2022).