Peltandra virginica (Linnaeus) Schott. Common name: Green Arrow-arum, Tuckahoe. Phenology: May-Jun. Habitat: Marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations, freshwater to oligohaline tidal marshes. Distribution: ME, s. QC, and n. MI south to s. FL and e. TX; Cuba.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = AqW, Ar, C, Can, ETx1, FNA22, G, GW1, Il, K4, Mi, Mo1, NE, NY, Ok, Pa, RAB, S, S13, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3, Spaulding et al (2019); = Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott ssp. virginica — Blackwell & Blackwell (1974); > Peltandra luteospadix Fernald — F, Fernald (1948); > Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott — F, Fernald (1948); Arum virginicum Linnaeus — (basionym)
Links to other floras: = Peltandra virginica - FNA22
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
- Great Plains: OBL
- Midwest: OBL
- Northcentral & Northeast: OBL
Heliophily ⓘ: 6
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Stemless, wetland perennial from a short, stout rhizome, found throughout eastern N. America in marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant aquatic situations and tidal marshes.
Stems:
Leaves: Leaves in a basal cluster, long-petiolate, arrowhead-shaped with a major vein running parallel to the leaf margin, to 20 in. long and 12 in. wide, glossy-green above, pale beneath.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers tightly packed on an elongate, cylindric spadix partly enclosed by a sheath-like, greenish-white spathe; greenish-yellow to greenish-white; tiny; lacking petals and sepals; male (staminate) flowers above, sterile flowers in middle and female (pistillate) flowers below.
Fruits: Fruit a cluster of green, maturing to purplish-black, berries enclosed by base of spathe.
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Height: 8-22 in.
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description: Stemless, wetland perennial from a short, stout rhizome, found throughout eastern N. America in marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant aquatic situations and tidal marshes.
stems:
leaves: Leaves in a basal cluster, long-petiolate, arrowhead-shaped with a major vein running parallel to the leaf margin, to 20 in. long and 12 in. wide, glossy-green above, pale beneath.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers tightly packed on an elongate, cylindric spadix partly enclosed by a sheath-like, greenish-white spathe; greenish-yellow to greenish-white; tiny; lacking petals and sepals; male (staminate) flowers above, sterile flowers in middle and female (pistillate) flowers below.
fruits: Fruit a cluster of green, maturing to purplish-black, berries enclosed by base of spathe.
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native range: eastern North America