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Scientific Name: | Peltandra virginica |
Common Name: | arrow arum |
Family Name: | Araceae |
Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
Plant Type: | Aquatic plant |
Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
Form: | Oval - vertical |
Texture: | Very coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Wetland - bogs |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | |
Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Oblong, Ovate |
Flowers: | Spadix (& spathe), White, Green, Jun |
Fruit: | Berry (true), Brown, Jul |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaf blades mostly 15-30cm long x 8-20cm wide, and arrow-head shaped, arising from submerged rhizome on petioles15-30cm long; florets tiny in spadix with whitish to greenish to yellow spathe; fruit a brown berry containing a few seeds within a clear gelatinous pulp. |