Plants Profile for Sagittaria graminea (grassy arrowhead)

General Information
Symbol:	SAGR
Group:	Monocot
Family:	Alismataceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Forb/herb
Native Status:	CAN N L48 N
Data Source and Documentation

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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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©Erica Asai. United States, FL, Columbia Co, Osceola National Forest. April 8, 2007. Usage Requirements.

©Erica Asai. United States, FL, Columbia Co, Osceola National Forest. March 27, 2007. Usage Requirements.

©Jim Stasz. United States, MD. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 1: 103. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Alismatidae
Order	Alismatales
Family	Alismataceae – Water-plantain family
Genus	Sagittaria L. – arrowhead
Species	Sagittaria graminea Michx. – grassy arrowhead

Subordinate Taxa

The Plants Database includes the following 3 subspecies of Sagittaria graminea . Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles.

Native

Introduced

Native and Introduced

Distribution of <i>Sagittaria graminea</i> Michx. var. <i>chapmanii</i> J.G. Sm.

Sagittaria graminea var. chapmanii
Chapman's arrowhead

Distribution of <i>Sagittaria graminea</i> Michx. var. <i>graminea </i>

Sagittaria graminea var. graminea
grassy arrowhead

Distribution of <i>Sagittaria graminea</i> Michx. var. <i>weatherbiana</i> (Fernald) Bogin

Sagittaria graminea var. weatherbiana
Weatherby's arrowhead

Legal Status

Threatened and Endangered Information:
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.
Kentucky grass-leaf arrowhead Threatened
Ohio grass-leaf arrowhead Endangered
Rhode Island grass-leaved arrowhead Special Concern
Tennessee grassleaf arrowhead Threatened

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Washington grass-leaved arrowhead Class B noxious weed grass-leaved arrowhead Wetland and aquatic weed quarantine

U.S. Weed Information
Sagittaria graminea grassy arrowhead This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
SWSS	Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.

Wetland Status

Interpreting Wetland Status

North America
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain	OBL
Eastern Mountains and Piedmont	OBL
Great Plains	OBL
Midwest	OBL
Northcentral & Northeast	OBL
Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast	OBL