Biology:Sagittaria subulata

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Sagittaria subulata
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Alismataceae
Genus: Sagittaria
Species:
S. subulata
Binomial name
Sagittaria subulata
(L.) Buchenau
Synonyms[1]
  • Alisma subulatum L.
  • Sagittaria lorata (Chapm.) Small
  • Sagittaria natans var. lorata Chapm.
  • Sagittaria natans var. pusilla (Nutt.) Chapm.
  • Sagittaria pusilla Nutt.
  • Sagittaria subulata subsp. lorata (Chapm.) R.T.Clausen
  • Sagittaria subulata var. lorata (Chapm.) Fernald
  • Sagittaria subulata var. pusilla (Nutt.) Buchenau

Sagittaria subulata, the awl-leaf arrowhead,[2] narrow-leaved arrowhead[3] or dwarf sagittaria, is an aquatic plant species.

Description

It is a perennial herb up to 40 centimetres (16 inches) tall. The leaves are submersed or floating, narrowly linear to ovate, not lobed. The inflorescence floats on the surface of the water.[4]

Distribution and habitat

It is native to the Colombia, Venezuela, and every US state along the coast from Massachusetts to Louisiana.[4][5] It has also been reported as naturalized in Great Britain on just three occasions; only one of these is recent and it appears to have become extinct by 2010. It is also recorded as a non-native on the Azores, and on the Island of Java in Indonesia.[6] It grows primarily in shallow brackish water along the seacoast, in marshes, estuaries, etc.

Conservation

It is listed as special concern in Connecticut,[7] as endangered in Massachusetts , as rare in Pennsylvania, and as historical in Rhode Island.[8]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1434390 entry