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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pontederia cordata var. cordata   FAMILY Pontederiaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pontederia cordata   FAMILY Pontederiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Pontederia cordata

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America

Pontederia cordata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Pontederia cordata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 039-02-001:

Pontederia cordata   FAMILY Pontederiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Pontederia cordata

 

COMMON NAME:
Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee


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image of Pontederia cordata var. cordata, Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_poco14_007_lvd

        

image of Pontederia cordata var. cordata, Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee

JK Marlow    jkm080517_107

May    Aiken County    SC

Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve

Lvs mostly ovate to triangular-lanceolate, base generally cordate or truncate, per Weakley's Flora.


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image of Pontederia cordata var. cordata, Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee

JK Marlow    jkm080517_181

May    Edgefield County    SC

Often in dense colonies, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Pontederia cordata var. cordata, Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee

JK Marlow    jkm080517_185

May    Edgefield County    SC

Inflorescence a dense terminal spike-like panicle, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).


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image of Pontederia cordata var. cordata, Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee

JK Marlow    s080517_a

May    Edgefield County    SC

Leaves basally sheathing, petiolate, and parallel curved-convergent veined, per Plant Systematics (Simpson, 2010).

image of Pontederia cordata var. cordata, Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee

JK Marlow    jkm060808_019

August    Greenville County    SC

image of Pontederia cordata var. cordata, Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee

JK Marlow    jkm090815_128

August    Greenville County    SC

Beaverpond & adjacent land

image of Pontederia cordata var. cordata, Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_p_cordata_cordata

August        

image of Pontederia cordata var. cordata, Heartleaf Pickerelweed, Wampee

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_p_cordata_cordatab

August        

Flowers 2-lipped, each lip 3-lobed, the upper lip marked with yellow, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pontederia cordata var. cordata   FAMILY Pontederiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pontederia cordata   FAMILY Pontederiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pontederia cordata

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Pontederia cordata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Pontederia cordata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 039-02-001:
Pontederia cordata   FAMILY Pontederiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pontederia cordata

 

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1137

Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial

Habitat: swamps, seepage areas, marshes, pond-shores, lake-shores, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Blue
2-lipped 6-lobed funnelform corolla
6 stamens (3 long exserted & 3 short included)
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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