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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Sagittaria brevirostra
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ALISMATALES
 FAMILY:   ALISMATACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Sagittaria brevirostra
 AUTHORITY:  Mack. & Bush
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    ARROWLEAF
    SHORT-BEAKED ARROWHEAD
 
 SYNONOMY:
     Sagittaria engelmanniana brevirostra
 
 PLANTS CODE: SABR8
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     WETLAND
       MARSH
       BORDER OF LAKE
     LAKE AND POND
       POND
     STREAM
       CREEK
         LOW-GRADIENT
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           BOONE           BROWN           CARROLL         CASS
   CHAMPAIGN       CLINTON         COLES           COOK            CRAWFORD
   DEKALB          DEWITT          DUPAGE          EDWARDS         FORD
   FRANKLIN        FULTON          GREENE          GRUNDY          HANCOCK
   HENDERSON       HENRY           IROQUOIS        JACKSON         JOHNSON
   KANKAKEE        KENDALL         KNOX            LASALLE         LAWRENCE
   LIVINGSTON      LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY         MCLEAN
   MACON           MACOUPIN        MASON           MASSAC          MENARD
   MORGAN          OGLE            PEORIA          PIKE            PUTNAM
   RICHLAND        ST. CLAIR       SALINE          SANGAMON        SCHUYLER
   SCOTT           VERMILION       WABASH          WARREN          WILL
   WILLIAMSON      WOODFORD
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Monocot
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (rhizomes)   (tubers)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:    Basal
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Parallel
    LEAF SHAPE:       Hastate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Raceme  Other
    FLOWER MEROUS:  3
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Regular
    FLOWER COLOR:   White
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      6         MONTH END-      9
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Unisexual   -dioecious
 
 BIOLOGIC COMMENTS:
     Species can also be monoecious.
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in shallow water, muddy borders of sloughs,
     and sluggish streams.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     EDIBLE:  Yes
 
 
 HUMAN FACTOR COMMENTS:
     Large starchy tubers are edible after baking or boiling for about
     half an hour. A related species is eaten in China.
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Gleason, H. A.  1952.  The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the
     northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.  3 vols.  The New York
     Botanical Garden, New York.
Fernald, M. L., A. C. Kinsey, and R. C. Rollins.  1958.  Edible wild plants of
     eastern North America.  Harper and Brothers, New York.  452 pp.
Medsger, O. P.  1939.  Edible wild plants.  MacMillan Company, New York.
     323 pp.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Sagittaria brevirostra
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015