Thalia dealbata
| Powdery alligator-flag Hardy canna | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Marantaceae |
| Genus: | Thalia |
| Species: | T. dealbata |
| Binomial name | |
| Thalia dealbata Fraser ex Roscoe | |
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Thalia dealbata (Powdery thalia, Hardy canna, Powdery alligator-flag) is an aquatic plant in the family Marantaceae, native to swamps, ponds and other wetlands in the southern and central United States.[2][3][4] Its range includes much of Coastal Plains and the lower Mississippi Valley (States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky).[5] The plant has been grown as an aquatic ornamental because of the pretty violet flowers, and in cultivation has been proved hardy as far north as Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and Vancouver (British Columbia).[6][7][8]
Thalia dealbata grows to 6 ft (1.8 m), with small violet flowers on an 8 in (20 cm) panicle held above the foliage. The blue-green leaves are ovate to lanceolate, dusted with white powder and with purple edges.[9][10]
References
- ↑ The Plant List, Thalia dealbata
- ↑ Fraser, John. 1794. Icon. Thalia dealbata t. 1, Thalia dealbata (the publication apparently lost but the illustrations still surviving at the British Museum in London fide Tropicos)
- ↑ Roscoe, William. 1807. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 8: 340, Thalia dealbata
- ↑ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1838. Flora Telluriana 4: 51. Spirostylis biflora
- ↑ Biota of North America Program, map, Thalia dealbata
- ↑ Flora of North America v 22, Thalia dealbata
- ↑ USDA Profile
- ↑ University of Texas Native Plant Database
- ↑ Evans, Erv. "Marginal Aquatics: Thalia dealbata". North Carolina State University. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
- ↑ Missouri Botanical Garden
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