Sagittaria fasciculata

E. O. Beal

Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Society 76: 76, fig. 3, map 5. 1960.

EndemicConservation concern
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22.

Herbs, perennial, to 35 cm; rhizomes absent; stolons present; corms present. Leaves submersed and emersed; submersed phyllodial, flattened, 9.5–16.5 × 0.6–1.5 cm; emersed with petiole nearly terete, 3–25 cm, blade linear-lanceolate to ovate, 5.5–8.5 × 0.5–2.1 cm. Inflorescences racemes, of 2–5 whorls, emersed, 4.5–15 × 2–6 cm; peduncles to 35 cm; bracts connate ¼ total length, lanceolate, 2–4.5 mm, delicate, not papillose; fruiting pedicels spreading to recurved, cylindric, 1.5–4.5 cm. Flowers to 1 cm diam.; sepals appressed to spreading, not enclosing flower or fruiting head; filaments dilated, equaling anthers, glabrous; pistillate pedicellate, without ring of sterile stamens. Fruiting heads 0.5–0.6 cm diam; achenes obovoid, abaxially keeled, 2.5–3 × 1.2–1.5 mm, beaked; faces not tuberculate, wings 1, entire, glands 0–1; beak lateral, horizontal, ca. 0.5 mm.


Phenology: Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat: Swamps, bogs, and wet roadside ditches
Elevation: 250–1000 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"connate" is not a number.

... more about "Sagittaria fasciculata"
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
keeled;obovoid +
1.2mm;1.5mm +
0.5cm;0.6cm +
papillose +  and smooth +
obtuse +  and acute +
Robert R. Haynes +  and C. Barre Hellquist +
E. O. Beal +
attenuate;hastate or sagittate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (?) +
5.5 cm55 mm <br />0.055 m <br /> (8.5 cm85 mm <br />0.085 m <br />) +
linear-lanceolate +  and ovate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (?) +  and 2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br /> (?) +
spreading;recurved +
not papillose +
cylindric +  and lanceolate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
N.C. +  and S.C. +
250–1000 m +
u--shaped +
not tuberculate +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
pistillate +, staminate +, sessile +  and pedicellate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
hypogynous +
not +, keeled +  and compressed +
0 +  and 1 +
Swamps, bogs, and wet roadside ditches +
decumbent +  and floating +
4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
petiolate +  and sessile +
9.5 cm95 mm <br />0.095 m <br /> (16.5 cm165 mm <br />0.165 m <br />) +
emersed +  and submersed +
flattened +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
decumbent +  and floating +
submersed +, floating +  and emersed +
ascending +  and recurved +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
deciduous +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
Flowering spring–summer. +
not radiating +  and arranged +
Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Society +
decumbent +  and floating +
persistent +
appressed;spreading +
sculptured +
herbaceous;leathery +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
Lophotocarpus +
Sagittaria fasciculata +
Sagittaria +
species +
white;brown +
emersed +  and submersed +
glabrous +  and sparsely pubescent +
bracteolate +  and branching +