The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to ALISMA

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Inflorescence < to barely > leaves; style ± curved; leaf blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, base tapered; pedicels generally spreading to recurved
A. gramineum
  1' Inflorescence generally >> leaves; style ± straight, erect; leaf blade generally lanceolate to ovate, base tapered, truncate, or slightly lobed; pedicels generally ascending to erect
 
    2. Petals pink; leaf blade generally lanceolate, base tapered; lateral walls of fruit thin, translucent
A. lanceolatum
    2' Petals generally white, sometimes pink; leaf blade lanceolate to ovate, base truncate to slightly lobed; lateral walls of fruit thick, opaque
A. plantago-aquatica


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