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Araceae
Green arrow arum
Peltandra virginica
Also known as Tuckahoe, Peltandra virginica f. hastifolia, Peltandra luteospadix, Caladium undulatum
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Aquatic Plant · Bog Plant · Pond Margin · Native · Araceae · Wetland · Arrow-Shaped Leaves · Rain Garden · Eastern Us Native · Water Garden
Green arrow arum is a native aquatic or bog plant best suited for pond margins, rain gardens, or consistently wet areas in partial shade. Plant in heavy clay or saturated soil where it can receive several hours of indirect light daily. It is low maintenance once established but requires permanently moist to wet conditions to thrive.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Keep soil saturated or plant in shallow water; never allow to dry out · Keep consistently wet; suitable for standing water up to 4 inches deep
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5–8.8
- Temperature
- -25°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 10 ft – 30 ft
- Spread
- 15 ft
- Spacing
- 24 in apart
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Root depth
- Shallow
- Flowers
- Mixed
- Foliage
- Green · Coarse
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Cuba, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Masachusettes, Michigan, Minnesota
- Attracts
- Bees, Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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