Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Alismatales > Alismataceae > Sagittaria > Sagittaria platyphyllaSagittaria platyphylla (delta arrowhead)Synonyms: Sagittaria graminea var. platyphylla; Sagittaria mohrii; Sagittaria recurva (homotypic) Sagittaria platyphylla, the delta arrowhead, broad-leaf arrowhead or Delta duck-potato, is a plant species native to the eastern United States. The core of its range extends from central Texas to the Florida Panhandle north to southern Illinois. Isolated populations have been reported from Washington State, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Virginia, North and South Carolina and eastern Georgia, Nuevo León, Michoacán and Panamá. It has also become a noxious weed in Australia. The plant is an emergent aquatic found in ponds, lakes and slow-moving streams. |
| Bloom Period [1] | Mid Summer | | Drought Tolerance [1] | None | | Fire Tolerance [1] | High | | Frost Free Days [1] | 4 months 15 days | | Fruit/Seed Begin [1] | Summer | | Fruit/Seed End [1] | Fall | | Growth Form [1] | Single Crown | | Growth Period [1] | Spring, Summer | | Growth Rate [1] | Rapid | | Leaf Type [1] | Deciduous | | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | | Propagation [1] | Seed, Sprig | | Regrowth Rate [1] | Slow | | Root Depth [1] | 12 inches (30 cm) | | Seed Spread Rate [1] | Moderate | | Seed Vigor [1] | Medium | | Seeds Per [1] | 70000 / lb (154323 / kg) | | Shape/Orientation [1] | Erect | | Structure [2] | Herb | | Vegetative Spread Rate [1] | None |  | | Flower Color [1] | White | | Foliage Color [1] | Green | | Fruit Color [1] | Green | | | Height [1] | 35 inches (0.9 m) | | | Hardiness Zone Minimum [1] | USDA Zone: 5 Low Temperature: -20 F° (-28.9 C°) → -10 F° (-23.3 C°) | | Light Preference [1] | Full Sun | | Soil Acidity [1] | Moderate Acid | | Soil Fertility [1] | Intermediate | | Water Use [1] | High | | | Screening - Summer [1] | Porous | | Screening - Winter [1] | Porous |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 3Food Habits and Selective Foraging by the Texas River Cooter (Pseudemys texana) in Spring Lake, Hays County, Texas, JACQUELINE R. FIELDS, THOMAS R. SIMPSON, RICHARD W. MANNING, AND FRANCIS L. ROSE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 726729, 2003 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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