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Taxon: Sagittaria sagittifolia L.

Genus: Sagittaria
Family: Alismataceae.
Nomen number: 32648
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:993. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 13-Jan-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
MAª, NCª, NHª, OKª, SCª.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • arrowhead   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  • arrowhead   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English   [Sagittaria sagittifolia subsp. sagittifolia]
  • Chinese arrowhead   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English   [Sagittaria sagittifolia subsp. leucopetala]
  • common arrowhead   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English   [Sagittaria sagittifolia subsp. sagittifolia]
  • Old World arrowhead   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • swamp-potato   (Source: Hortus 3 [as S. sagittifolia]) – English   [Sagittaria sagittifolia subsp. leucopetala]
  • swan-potato   (Source: Hortus 3 [as S. sagittifolia]) – English   [Sagittaria sagittifolia subsp. leucopetala]
  • flèche d'eau   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • sagittaire nageante   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French   [Sagittaria sagittifolia subsp. sagittifolia]
  • gewöhnliches Pfeilkraut   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German   [Sagittaria sagittifolia subsp. sagittifolia]
  • Pfeilkraut   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • kuwai   (Source: F JapanOhwi [as S. trifolia var. edulis]) – Japanese Rōmaji   [Sagittaria sagittifolia subsp. leucopetala]
  • espadana   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • sagitária   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • seta-européia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • flecha de agua   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • saeta de agua   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia [w.], Western Siberia
    China: China - Xinjiang
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

References:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Cout. 1913. Flora of Portugal.
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Sagittaria sagittifolia L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?32648 (09 February 2010)

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