Index / Search / Sagittaria platyphylla
§1 Plant
Sagittaria platyphylla (Engelm.) J.G. Sm.
vernacular delta arrowhead — species · Alismataceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Alismataceae Vent.
- Genus
- Sagittaria
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 209 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 135 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Green
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 70,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 209 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Clark 05019
- Cleburne 05023
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Faulkner 05045
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Howard 05061
- Jefferson 05069
- Lafayette 05073
- Lawrence 05075
- Logan 05083
- Lonoke 05085
- Mississippi 05093
- Polk 05113
- Randolph 05121
- Union 05139
- Van Buren 05141
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 64 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 8 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 74 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bowie 48037
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Cameron 48061
- Camp 48063
- Cass 48067
- Chambers 48071
- Cherokee 48073
- Colorado 48089
- Dallas 48113
- Erath 48143
- Freestone 48161
- Galveston 48167
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Gregg 48183
- Grimes 48185
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Henderson 48213
- Houston 48225
- Hunt 48231
- Jackson 48239
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Karnes 48255
- Kimble 48267
- Lamar 48277
- Lavaca 48285
- Lee 48287
- Leon 48289
- Liberty 48291
- Limestone 48293
- Llano 48299
- Madison 48313
- Marion 48315
- Matagorda 48321
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- Milam 48331
- Montgomery 48339
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Newton 48351
- Panola 48365
- Parker 48367
- Polk 48373
- Rains 48379
- Red River 48387
- Robertson 48395
- Rusk 48401
- Sabine 48403
- San Jacinto 48407
- San Saba 48411
- Shelby 48419
- Smith 48423
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Titus 48449
- Travis 48453
- Tyler 48457
- Upshur 48459
- Uvalde 48463
- Van Zandt 48467
- Walker 48471
- Washington 48477
- Williamson 48491
- Wood 48499
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SAPL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5329007 ↗Record version
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