Sagittaria filiformis

J. G. Smith

N. Amer. Sagittaria. 20, plate 15, figs. 5–8. 1894.

Endemic
Synonyms: Sagittaria stagnorum Small Sagittaria subulata var. gracillima (S. Watson) J. G. Smith
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22.

Herbs, perennial, to 170 cm, mostly of fresh waters, some plants stranded along shore; rhizomes absent; stolons present; corms present. Leaves submersed or floating, rarely emersed; submersed phyllodial, flattened, 30–250 × 0.1–1.5 cm; floating with petiole flattened, to 40 cm, blade linear-ovate to ovate, rarely sagittate, to 3.5 × 0.5 cm; emersed with petiole 5–10 cm, blade linear-ovate to ovate, rarely hastate to sagittate, to 4 × 0.5 cm; stranded plants usually with expanded leaf blades. Inflorescences racemes, rarely panicles, of 4–10 whorls, floating to slightly emersed, 15–25 × 5–15 cm; peduncles 10–200 cm; bracts connate more than ¼ total length, lanceolate, 110 mm, delicate, not papillose; fruiting pedicels spreading to recurved, cylindric, 1.5–4.5 cm. Flowers to 3 cm diam.; sepals spreading in staminate, erect in pistillate, enclosing flower or fruiting head; filaments dilated, ± equaling anthers, glabrous; pistillate pedicellate, without ring of sterile stamens. Fruiting heads 0.7–1 cm diam.; achenes obovoid, abaxially keeled, 5 × 2.5 mm, beaked; faces not tuberculate, wings 0–3, ± entire, glands 0–1; beak lateral, erect, 1 mm. 2n = 22.


Phenology: Flowering summer–fall.
Habitat: Shallow, swift waters or deep streams in northern portion of range, ponds, lakes, drainage canals, and swamps in southern portion of range
Elevation: 0–100 m

Distribution

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Ala., Conn., Fla., Ga., Maine, Mass., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Pa., R.I., S.C., Va.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Robert R. Haynes +  and C. Barre Hellquist +
J. G. Smith +
Ala. +, Conn. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Maine +, Mass. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Pa. +, R.I. +, S.C. +  and Va. +
0–100 m +
Shallow, swift waters or deep streams in northern portion of range, ponds, lakes, drainage canals, and swamps in southern portion of range +
Flowering summer–fall. +
N. Amer. Sagittaria. +
Sagittaria stagnorum +  and Sagittaria subulata var. gracillima +
Sagittaria filiformis +
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