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|accepted_name=Canna glauca
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 1. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Louisiana canna
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cannaceae;Canna;Canna glauca
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cannaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Canna]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Canna glauca]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>far-creeping, 0.5–1.5 cm diam. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath and blade glaucous; blade narrowly ovate, 28–70 × 1.5–14 cm, base cuneate, apex very gradually narrowing to acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, simple or occasionally branched, bearing 2-flowered cincinni, more than 10 flowers per inflorescence; primary bracts 10–30 cm; secondary bracts 5–20 cm; floral bracts persistent, (broadly) ovate-triangular, 0.7–2.5 × 0.4–1 cm, apex entire or irregularly lobed, glaucous; bracteoles (broadly) ovate-triangular, 0.3–2 cm × 4–8 mm, apex entire or irregularly lobed. <b>Flowers</b> pure yellow, 7.5–10 cm; pedicels short, to 0.5 cm; sepals narrowly elliptic-triangular, 1.2–2 × 0.3–0.5 cm; petals erect, 5–9 cm, tube 1–2 cm, lobes narrowly ovate, 4–7 × 0.7–1.1 cm; staminodes 4, narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, 7.5–10 cm, free part 0.5–2.3 cm wide, apex sometimes slightly notched; labellum strongly reflexed, linear, approximately equal to other staminodes. <b>Capsules</b> globose to ellipsoid, 2–5 × 2–4 cm. <b>Seeds</b> brown, ovoid, 7–10 × 6–8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer; fruiting summer–fall (Jun–Sep).
|habitat=Margins of marshes, swamps, ponds, and wet ditches
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;La.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Canna glauca</i> is introduced in Florida and probably in South Carolina.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=belling1931a
|text=Belling, J. 1931. Chromomeres of liliaceous plants. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 16: 153---170.
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|id=honing1928a
|text=Honing, J. A. 1928. Canna crosses II. Meded. Landbouwhoogeschool 32: 1--14.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=lerman1971a
|text=Lerman, J. C. and E. M. Cigliano. 1971. New carbon-14 evidence for six hundred years old Canna compacta seed. Nature 232: 568--570.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=yeo1993a
|text=Yeo, P. F. 1993. Secondary pollen presentation: Form, function and evolution. Pl. Syst. Evol., Suppl. 6: 204--208.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Canna glauca
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cannaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer; fruiting summer–fall (Jun–Sep).
|habitat=Margins of marshes, swamps, ponds, and wet ditches
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;La.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=belling1931a;honing1928a;lerman1971a;yeo1993a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_397.xml
|genus=Canna
|species=Canna glauca
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