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Plant Index

Scientific Name:
Common Name:
Genus:
Family:

Peltandra virginica

Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott

green arrow arum, green arrow-arum, tuckahoe

Synonym(s): Peltandra tharpii

Image ID: 16089
Image by: Sorrie, Bruce A.
Image Collection: NCBG Digital Library

PLANT INDEX

ID_PLANT: PEVI
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Peltandra virginica
Include in WOTAS: 1
Publish to Web: 1
Last Modified: 2017-12-22

GENUS INDEX

GENUS CODE: PELTA
GENUS SCIENTIFIC: Peltandra
GENUS AUTHORITY: Raf.
GENUS COMMON: Arrow arum
GENUS SUMMARY: A genus of 2 species, endemic to e. North America.
GENUS IDENTIFICATION: Identification notes: Peltandra is often confused in vegetative condition with Pontederia and Sagittaria, superficially similar emergent aquatics with hastate or sagittate leaves. Peltandra leaves have pinnate venation, a prominent midvein, a prominent vein running parallel to the leaf margin, and the hastate lobes with rounded to acute apices. Pontederia leaves have parallel venation, lack a prominent midvein and a prominent vein parallel to the leaf margin, and have hastate lobes with broadly rounded apices. The leaves of sagittate species of Sagittaria have parallel venation, a prominent midrib, a vein at 90 degrees to the midrib at the junction of the main blade and each of the hastate lobes that forks, with at least one fork directed apically and at least one fork directed into the basal lobe, lack a prominent vein parallel to the margin, and have hastate-sagittate lobes with acuminate apices.
GENUS REFERENCES: Thompson in FNA (2000); Blackwell & Blackwell (1974)=Z; Mayo, Bogner, & Boyce in Kubitzki (1998b).

FAMILY INDEX

FAMILY CODE: ARACEA
FAMILY SCIENTIFIC: Araceae
FAMILY AUTHORITY: A.L de Jussieu 1789
FAMILY COMMON: Arum Family
FAMILY SUMMARY: A family of about 100-110 genera and about 3000-4000 species, herbs and reduced aquatic herbs, cosmopolitan, but mostly tropical and subtropical. The Lemnaceae is phylogenetically embedded in the Araceae, and is here included in it as subfamily Lemnoideae (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 1998, 2003; Keating 2004).
FAMILY REFERENCE: Thompson in FNA (2000); Cabrera et al. (2008); Cusimano et al. (2011); Mayo, Bogner, & Boyce in Kubitzki (1998b); Keating (2004); Serviss, McDaniel, & Bryson (2000); Landolt in FNA (2000); Landolt (1980); Landolt (1986); Landolt in Kubitzki (1998b); Les & Crawford (1999); Bown (2000).

NCBG DESCRIPTIVES

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.
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.
COMMENTS:
HEIGHT: 8-22 in.

DURATION: Perennial
HABIT: Herb

LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Basal
LEAF COMPLEXITY: Simple
LEAF RETENTION:

FLORAL CHARACTERISTICS
SYMMETRY:
BLOOM TIME: Apr-Jun

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BLOOM COLOR: Yellow-green

White	Red	Pink	Orange	Yellow	Green	Blue	Lavender	Purple	Violet	Brown	Not Applicable
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DISTRIBUTION
HABITAT TYPE: Aquatic, Bogs/pocosins
NATIVE RANGE: eastern North America

HORTICULTURAL
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Cultural Notes:

SOIL MOISTURE: Moist/Wet
LIGHT EXPOSURE: Sun, Part Shade, Shade
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GRIM ACCESSIONS

acc_id	acc_num	acc_dt	coll_id	Action
1991	1986-1782			View
2418	1986-2258			View
2862	1987-0378			View
3966	1992-0122			View

GRIM PLANTINGS

plt_num	acc_id	loc_num	pers_num	inst_dt	Action
3186	1991	61	NCBG staff	1986-12-23	View
4120	2418	121	NCBG staff	2002-01-01	View
4759	2862	8	NCBG staff	1980-05-14	View
6294	3966	200	NCBG staff	1993-03-01	View

USDA PLANTS DATABASE

USDA Symbol: PEVI
USDA Common Name: Green Arrow Arum
Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
Distribution: USA (AL, AR, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV), CAN (ON, QC)
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Forb/herb

NATIONAL WETLAND INDICATOR STATUS

Region:	AGCP	AK	AW	CB	EMP	GP	HI	MW	NCNE	WMVE
Status:	OBL		OBL		OBL	OBL		OBL	OBL	OBL

This information is derived from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2016 National Wetland Plant List, Version 3.3 (Lichvar, R.W., D.L. Banks, W.N. Kirchner, and N.C. Melvin. 2016. The National Wetland Plant List: 2016 wetland ratings. Phytoneuron 2016-30: 1-17. Published 28 April 2016. ISSN 2153 733X). Regions: AGCP-Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, AK-Alaska, AW-Arid West, CB-Caribbean, EMP-Eastern Mountains and Piedmont, GP-Great Plains, HI-Hawaii, MW-Midwest, NCNE-Northcentral and Northeast, WMCV-Western Mountains, Valleys & Coast

WEAKLEY FLORA

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Peltandra virginica
COMMON NAME: Green Arrow-arum, Tuckahoe
SYNONYMY: [= C, FNA, G, GW, K, Pa, RAB, S, Tn, Va, W, WH3; > P. virginica - F; > P. luteospadix Fernald - F; > P. virginica ssp. virginica - Z]
PHENOLOGY: May-Jun.
HABITAT: Marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations, freshwater to oligohaline tidal marshes.
COMMENTS: ME, s. QC, and n. MI south to s. FL and e. TX; also Cuba.
RANGE MAP: Peltandra virginica.png

Key to Map Symbols

ABOUT FAMILY (Weakley Flora)
Araceae A.L de Jussieu 1789 (Arum Family)
SUMMARY: A family of about 100-110 genera and about 3000-4000 species, herbs and reduced aquatic herbs, cosmopolitan, but mostly tropical and subtropical. The Lemnaceae is phylogenetically embedded in the Araceae, and is here included in it as subfamily Lemnoideae (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 1998, 2003; Keating 2004).
REFERENCE: Thompson in FNA (2000); Cabrera et al. (2008); Cusimano et al. (2011); Mayo, Bogner, & Boyce in Kubitzki (1998b); Keating (2004); Serviss, McDaniel, & Bryson (2000); Landolt in FNA (2000); Landolt (1980); Landolt (1986); Landolt in Kubitzki (1998b); Les & Crawford (1999); Bown (2000).

ABOUT GENUS (Weakley Flora)
Peltandra Raf. (Arrow arum)
SUMMARY: A genus of 2 species, endemic to e. North America.
REFERENCE: Thompson in FNA (2000); Blackwell & Blackwell (1974)=Z; Mayo, Bogner, & Boyce in Kubitzki (1998b).

HERBARIUM RESOURCES

SERNEC: Find Peltandra virginica in Southeast Regional Network of Experts and Collections (if available)
UNC SERNEC: Find Peltandra virginica in University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium - Southeast Regional Network of Experts and Collections (if available)

WEB RESOURCES

USDA: Find Peltandra virginica in USDA Plants
NPIN: Find Peltandra virginica in NPIN Database
FNA: Find Peltandra virginica in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Peltandra virginica

IMAGE USE RECORDS

ID IMAGE: 16089 - Primary Image FloraQuest Plant Detail Page (Landscape Preferred)
ID IMAGE1: 16090 - Primary Image WOTAS
ID IMAGE2: 0 - Secondary Image WOTAS
ID IMAGE3: 0 - Primary Image Plant Sale Sign (Landscape Only)
ID IMAGE4: 0 - Primary Image New Plant Sale Label (Portrait Only)