Sagittaria montevidensis

Chamisso & Schlechtendal

Linnaea 2: 156. 1827.

Common names: Sagittaire spongieuse
WeedyIllustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22.

Herbs, annual or perennial, to 100 cm; rhizomes present; stolons present; corms present. Leaves submersed and emersed; submersed leaves absent or phyllodial, flattened, to 17 × 2 cm; emersed leaves with petiole triangular, 21–55 cm, blade hastate to sagittate, 2.5–17.5 × 0.6–22 cm, lobes longer than or equal to remainder of blade. Inflorescences racemes or panicles, of 1–15 whorls, floating or emersed, 1.5–28 × 1.5–15 cm; peduncles 15–47 cm; bracts distinct or connate less than ¼ total length, lanceolate to elliptic, 4–34 mm, delicate, not papillose; fruiting pedicels recurved, club-shaped, 0.5–4.2 cm. Flowers 2–5 cm diam.; sepals spreading in staminate, erect in pistillate, enclosing flower or fruiting head; filaments cylindric, longer than anthers, glabrous; pistillate pedicellate, with or without ring of sterile stamens. Fruiting heads 1.2–2.1 cm diam.; achenes oblanceoloid, not abaxially keeled, 2–4.3 × 0.7–1.5 mm, beaked; faces not tuberculate, wings absent, glands 1; beak lateral, horizontal, 0.4–0.8 mm.

Distribution

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N.B., Ala., Ark., Calif., Colo., Conn., Del., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Md., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.C., N.H., N.J., N.Mex., N.Y., Nebr., Ohio, Okla., Pa., S.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va., Wis., Mexico, South America

Discussion

Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Plants of tidal mud flats, often stranded by low tide, emersed blades spatulate, rarely sagittate. Sagittaria montevidensis subsp. spongiosa
1 Plants of fresh waters, not stranded by low tide; emersed blades hastate to sagittate. > 2
2 Pistillate flowers without ring of sterile stamens; petals with purple spot at base Sagittaria montevidensis subsp. montevidensis
2 Pistillate flowers with ring of sterile stamens; petals without purple spot at base. Sagittaria montevidensis subsp. calycina
... more about "Sagittaria montevidensis"
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.43 cm4.3 mm <br />0.0043 m <br />) +
keeled;oblanceoloid +
0.7mm;1.5mm +
papillose +  and smooth +
obtuse +  and acute +
Robert R. Haynes +  and C. Barre Hellquist +
Chamisso & Schlechtendal +
attenuate;hastate or sagittate +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (17.5 cm175 mm <br />0.175 m <br />) +
hastate +  and sagittate +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (?) +  and 22 cm220 mm <br />0.22 m <br /> (?) +
less than ¼ total length +
connate +  and distinct +
not papillose +
club--shaped +, lanceolate +  and elliptic +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (4.2 cm42 mm <br />0.042 m <br />) +
Sagittaire spongieuse +
N.B. +, Ala. +, Ark. +, Calif. +, Colo. +, Conn. +, Del. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Ky. +, La. +, Maine +, Mass. +, Md. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, N.C. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Mex. +, N.Y. +, Nebr. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, Pa. +, S.C. +, S.Dak. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +, Va. +, W.Va. +, Wis. +, Mexico +  and South America +
u--shaped +
not tuberculate +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br />) +
cylindric +
pistillate +, staminate +, sessile +  and pedicellate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
hypogynous +
not +, keeled +  and compressed +
decumbent +  and floating +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (28 cm280 mm <br />0.28 m <br />) +
emersed +  and floating +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
petiolate +  and sessile +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (17 cm170 mm <br />0.17 m <br />) +
emersed +  and submersed +
flattened +
21 cm210 mm <br />0.21 m <br /> (55 cm550 mm <br />0.55 m <br />) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
decumbent +  and floating +
1.5cm;28cm +
emersed +  and floating +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
ascending +  and recurved +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (47 cm470 mm <br />0.47 m <br />) +
deciduous +
triangular +
not radiating +  and arranged +
decumbent +  and floating +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (28 cm280 mm <br />0.28 m <br />) +
emersed +  and floating +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
pedicellate +
persistent +
erect;spreading +
sculptured +
herbaceous;leathery +
Weedy +  and Illustrated +
Lophotocarpus +
Sagittaria montevidensis +
Sagittaria +
species +
white;brown +
perennial +  and annual +
emersed +  and submersed +
glabrous +  and sparsely pubescent +
bracteolate +  and branching +