| Sagittaria cuneata Sheld. | |||
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| Family | Alismataceae — APG family: Alismataceae | ||
| Common name | arrowhead | ||
| Description | Terrestrial forms have numerous sagittate leaves on slender peduncles. Alaskan specimens seen are water plants with sagittate or lanceolate leaves, lacking basal lobes, with submerged leaves reduced to phyllopodia; lower whorl or whorls of flowers are pistillate, upper whorls staminate, with lanceolate or narrowly ovate bracts; filaments glabrous, achenes obovate, with wide, rounded, dorsal keel. | ||
| Ecology | Muddy shores, in shallow water. Described from Otter Tail County, Minnesota. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.