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|accepted_name=Sagittaria australis
|accepted_authority=(J. G. Smith) Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora of the Southeastern United States
|place=45. 1903
|year=1903
}}
|common_names=Appalachian arrowhead
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Sagittaria longirostra var. australis
|authority=J. G. Smith
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication_place=24: 20. 1897
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sagittaria engelmanniana subsp. longirostra
|authority=(Micheli) Bogin
|rank=subspecies
}}
|hierarchy=Alismataceae;Sagittaria;Sagittaria australis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Alismataceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sagittaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sagittaria australis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, to 130 cm; rhizomes absent; stolons present; corms present. <b>Leaves</b> emersed; petiole 5-winged, 19–85 cm; blade sagittate, 3–19 × 2.5–11 cm, basal lobes &#177; equal to remainder of blade. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, of 5–12 whorls, emersed, 10–29 × 3–5 cm; peduncles 25–105 cm; bracts distinct or if connate, then less than ¼ total length, lanceolate, 7–30 mm, papery, not papillose; fruiting pedicels spreading to ascending, cylindric, 0.3–2.3 cm. <b>Flowers</b> to 3 cm diam.; sepals recurved to spreading, not enclosing flower or fruiting head; filaments cylindric, longer than anthers, glabrous; pistillate pedicellate, without ring of sterile stamens. <b>Fruiting</b> heads 1–2.2 cm diam.; achenes obovoid, without abaxial keel, 2.1–3.2 × 1.4–2.3 mm, beaked; faces not tuberculate, wings 0–2, &#177; entire, glands absent; beak lateral, strongly recurved, 4–17 mm. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–early fall (Jul–Oct).
|habitat=Slightly basic to slightly acidic ponds, lakes, and swamps
|elevation=1–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>The name <i>Sagittaria</i> longirostra (Micheli) J. G. Smith has been misapplied to <i>S. australis</i> (J. G. Smith) Small (E. O. Beal et al. 1980).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=beal1980a
|text=Beal, E. O., S. S. Hooper, and K. Rataj. 1980. Misapplication of the name Sagittaria longirostra (Micheli) J. G. Smith to S. australis (J. G. Smith) Small. Kew Bull. 35: 369--371.
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name=Sagittaria australis
|authority=(J. G. Smith) Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sagittaria engelmanniana subsp. longirostra
|basionyms=Sagittaria longirostra var. australis
|family=Alismataceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–early fall (Jul–Oct).
|habitat=Slightly basic to slightly acidic ponds, lakes, and swamps
|elevation=1–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=beal1980a
|publication title=Flora of the Southeastern United States
|publication year=1903
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_141.xml
|genus=Sagittaria
|species=Sagittaria australis
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