Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sagittaria cycloptera (J. G. Smith) C. Mohr, Bull. Torrey
Club 24: 20. 1897.
Sagittaria graminea cycloptera J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6 : 52. 1894.
Plants mostly emersed, 2-8 dm. tall ; leaves sometimes partially reduced to slender tapering phyllodia, the blades linear or linear-lanceolate, 4—15 cm. long, tapering to both ends, shorter than the petioles; scapes erect, usually slightly longer than the leaves, sometimes branched; whorls of the inflorescence three to fifteen, or rarely solitary, several of the lower ones usually pistillate ; bracts ovate, 3-5 mm. long, acute, united at the base ; sepals ovate, becoming 4-6 mm. long; corolla 15-20 mm. broad; filaments dilated, pubescent ; anthers oblong, longer than the filaments ; fruit-heads barely 1 cm. in diameter ; achenes broadly oblong or oval, 1.5 mm. long, broadly winged, with 2 facial wings on each side, the short beak ascending, rather lateral.
Type locality : South Carolina.
Distribution : South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana.
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
