Nuphar sagittifolia

Nuphar sagittifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
Order: Nymphaeales
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Genus: Nuphar
Species: N. sagittifolia
Binomial name
Nuphar sagittifolia
(Walter) Pursh
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Nuphar lutea subsp. sagittifolia (Walter) E.O. Beal
  • Nymphaea sagittifolia Walter
  • Nymphozanthus sagittifolius (Walter) Fernald
  • Nuphar sagittaefolia (Walter) Pursh Search in The Plant List

Nuphar sagittifolia, common name Arrow-leaved water-lily or Cape Fear spatterdock, is a plant species known only from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. It is aquatic, found in lakes, ponds, and slow-moving rivers in the coastal plains of those states.[3] It is also sold in pet shops as greenery to grow in aquaria and water-gardens.[4]

Nuphar sagittifolia is a perennial herb with rhizomes buried in the mud below the water. Leaf blades either float on the surface of the water or are submerged beneath it. Petioles are terete (round in cross-section). Leaves are 3-lobed and sagittate (arrow-shaped or V-shaped), the tips of the lobes sometimes rounded. Flowers are green and yellow, 2–3 cm (1–1 in) in diameter, usually held above the surface of the water.[5][6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List
  2. ↑ Tropicos
  3. ↑ Flora of North America v 3
  4. ↑ Aquariumplants
  5. ↑ Pursh, Frederick Traugott. Flora Americae Septentrionalis 2: 370. 1814
  6. ↑ Walter, Thomas. Flora Caroliniana, secundum 155. 1788.
  7. ↑ Gleason, H. A. & A.J. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (ed. 2) i–910. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx.
  8. ↑ Gleason, H. A. 1968. The Choripetalous Dicotyledoneae. vol. 2. 655 pp. In H. A. Gleason, New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (ed. 3). New York Botanical Garden, New York.
  9. ↑ Beal, E. O. 1956. Taxonomic revision of the genus Nuphar Sm. of North America and Europe. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 72: 317-346.
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