Orontium aquaticum

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Species Distribution Map
Family:ARACEAE
Species:Orontium aquaticum L.
Common Name:Golden Club; Bog Torch; Never Wet
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Golden Club is a native herbaceous perennial in the Arum family (Araceae). It can be found throughout most of Alabama, except those areas such as the Black Belt and Tennessee River Valley with basic soils. Golden Club grows in acidic streams, in swamps, in beaver ponds, and in sloughs. It is a perennial from a thick vertical rhizome. The rhizome has contractile roots—thick roots with a ribbed surface that can expand and contract and thereby pull the rhizome deeper into the soil. Leaves are clustered at the top of the rhizome. The leaves are petiolate, elliptic in outline, glabrous, with entire margins. The leaves float on the surface of the water, and are dark green above and pale green below. They have a waxy surface that repels water. Flowers are produced on long cylindrical or conic spadix (a type of inflorescence with tiny flowers closely arranged on a fleshy stalk) lacking a spathe (a leaf-like bract partially enclosing the spadix). The spadix is bright yellow on a white peduncle. The fruit is an utricle (a bag-like fruit) containing a single seed embedded in mucus. Golden Club is endemic to the eastern North America. All parts of the plant contain calcium oxalate crystals which are extremely irritating to the mouth and throat if consumed. It is a common emergent pool plant and can easily be grown from seed.--A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, OBL (NWI), G5 (Global Rank)
References:**

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

FamilyARACEAE - Arum family
Genus Orontium
Species Orontium aquaticum L. - Golden Club; Bog Torch; Never Wet

Citation

Citation Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 324. 1753.
Basionym: **
Type: Without data (lectotype: LINN 448.1). Lectotypified by J.L. Reveal, in C.E. Jarvis et al., Regnum Veg. 127: 72. 1993.

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Aronia aquatica Aronia aquatica (Linnaeus) Baillon, Hist. Pl. 13: 507. 1895.Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus 1753. 
Pothos ovata Pothos ovata Walter, Fl. Carol. 224. 1788. SOUTH CAROLINA

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Cleburne, Coffee, Colbert, Conecuh, Coosa, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, DeKalb, Escambia, Etowah, Geneva, Hale, Henry, Houston, Jefferson, Lamar, Lawrence, Lee, Macon, Marion, Mobile, Monroe, Morgan, Perry, Pickens, Pike, Russell, Shelby, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Washington, Winston

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AMAL, AUA, JSU, SAMF, TROY, UNA, UNAF, USAM, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1953 - 1995

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
AUA000033799 Covington 19 May 2009 Hansen, Curtis J.
4027		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UWAL0047592 Baldwin 08 Mar 2017 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2938		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000029838 Baldwin 29 Oct 2007 Barger, T. Wayne
224		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
JSU110292 Talladega 10 Apr 1994 Ballard, J. Mark
3533		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033823 Russell 28 Apr 1969 Griffin, J.W.
186		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00055790 Lamar 28 Apr 2002 Keener, Brian R.
1990		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033816 Mobile 9 Apr 1978 Nelson, Glenn
55		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00060540 Mobile 16 Apr 1966 Mettee, Maurice F.
43		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033805 Henry 18 Mar 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
14989		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00036493 Bibb 29 Apr 1986 Burckhalter, Robert
461		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000009917 Covington 14 Apr 1997 Holmes, Jeanese
L-3		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033796 Coffee 20 Apr 2005 Little, K.
26		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
JSU110283 Colbert 11 Apr 1978 Kral, Robert
61465		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0047538 Jefferson 02 Jun 2018 Spaulding, Daniel D.
15350		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000009916 Coffee 18 Feb 2000 Martin, Brian H.
418		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
JSU110288 Escambia 18 Mar 1967 Collier, Gary
s.n.		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033825 Russell 8 May 1974 Jenkins, J.D.
220		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UWAL0047348 Marion 21 May 1988 Webb, David H.
5345		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
UNA00050982 Perry 25 Apr 1995 Birk, Michelle
199		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AMAL00016241 Henry 18 Mar 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
14989		 AMAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
UWAL0034465 Covington 28 Mar 1996 Kral, Robert
85717		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000009915 Coffee 03 Nov 2000 Martin, Brian H.
1010		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
JSU110291 Shelby 11 Oct 1997 Spaulding, Daniel D.
10205		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033814 Macon 12 Apr 1963 Rogers, Ken E.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
TROY000024844 Houston 10 Apr 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
18884		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033795 Clarke 17 Mar 1981 O'Halloran, K.
004		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
TROY000039167 Covington 14 Mar 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
24862		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
JSU110285 DeKalb 29 Apr 1972 Landers, Kenneth E.
s.n.		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033804 Escambia 11 Apr 1964 Kral, Robert
19702		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00064373 Henry 18 Mar 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
14989		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
UWAL0014725 Washington 25 May 2014 England, J. Kevin
4868		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033793 Barbour 27 Feb 2009 Hansen, Curtis J.
3619		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UWAL0045923 Tallapoosa 18 May 2018 Spaulding, Daniel D.
15281		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
JSU110282 Clay 2 May 1981 Whetstone, R. David
10659		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033821 Russell 2 Apr 1960 Jones, Jr., Samuel B.
506		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
TROY000042159 Covington 19 May 2009 Hansen, Curtis J.
4027		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UNA00061298 Winston 24 Mar 2000 England, J. Kevin
130		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033819 Pike 5 Apr 1988 Diamond, Alvin R.
4392		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UWAL0043426 Baldwin 11 Apr 2001 Larsen, Harry S.
1402		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
JSU110293 Washington 24 Jun 1984 Whetstone, R. David
14287		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0045850 Shelby 24 Mar 2018 Spaulding, Daniel D.
15154		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000009919 Escambia 10 Feb 2002 Diamond, Alvin R.
12899		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0003491 Mobile 22 Feb 2009 Keener, Brian R.
5053		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000039169 Escambia 14 Mar 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
24865		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
JSU110286 DeKalb 29 Apr 1972 Landers, Kenneth E.
s.n.		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033791 Baldwin 23 Apr 1978 Lamb, Trip
94		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026183 DeKalb 11 May 1987 Haynes, Robert R.
9151		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
JSU110281 Clay 20 Mar 1993 Ballard, J. Mark
1389		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
SAMF0007363 Escambia 05 Apr 2021 Davenport, L.J.
6819		 SAMF
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0015816 Covington 14 Mar 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
24862		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0045919 Lee 18 May 2018 Spaulding, Daniel D.
15285		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
AMAL00016876 Barbour 27 Feb 2009 Hansen, Curtis J.
3619		 AMAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033812 Macon 11 Apr 1970 Koelling, Alfred C.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
TROY000030097 Barbour 27 Feb 2009 Hansen, Curtis J.
3619		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AMAL00016309 Pike 12 Mar 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
14979		 AMAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
UNA00036498 Hale 01 May 1980 Haynes, Robert R.
7787		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033808 Lee 4 Apr 1962 Shands, W.A.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026194 Mobile s.d. Mohr, Charles
s.n.		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033811 Lee 6 Apr 2006 Glesner, L.J.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026197 Pike 30 Mar 1980 Davenport, Lawrence J.
1740		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033798 Conecuh 21 Mar 1985 Diamond, Alvin R.
64		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026195 Pickens 09 Apr 1953 Chermock, Ralph L.
s.n.		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033794 Butler 17 Apr 1987 Diamond, Alvin R.
3136		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00073926 Hale 31 Mar 2017 England, J. Kevin
7336		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000024843 Henry 18 Mar 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
14989		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033824 Russell 4 Apr 1971 Gwaltney, John R.
043		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
TROY000024728 Lamar 28 Apr 2002 Keener, Brian R.
1990		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
JSU110287 Escambia 29 Mar 1993 Ballard, J. Mark
1257		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0045867 Morgan 08 Apr 2018 Spaulding, Daniel D.
15171		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000024841 Butler 24 Mar 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
18801		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
USAM000001502 Mobile 30 Mar 1974 LeLong, Michel G.
7469		 USAM
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033807 Lee 13 Apr 1971 James, Audrey
059		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UWAL0015786 Escambia 14 Mar 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
24865		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
SAMF0000205 Tuscaloosa 29 Mar 1966 Tucker, Charles E.
60		 SAMF
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UNA00026198 Pike 15 Jun 1979 Haynes, Robert R.
7303		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033809 Lee 22 Mar 1955 Helms, William
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026188 Geneva 12 Jul 1978 Davenport, Lawrence J.
569		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033790 Autauga 4 Apr 1952 Cunningham, Hugh B.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026193 Mobile 27 Mar 1977 Davenport, Lawrence J.
13		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
UNAF0000557 Colbert 20 Jun 1977 Keys, Vicky
s.n.		 UNAF
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0036694 Hale 31 Mar 2017 England, J. Kevin
7336		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AMAL00000058 Baldwin 26 Mar 1995 Spaulding, Daniel D.
8689		 AMAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
UWAL0003492 Washington 22 Feb 2009 Keener, Brian R.
5050		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
UNA00036496 Perry 26 Sep 1981 Haynes, Robert R.
8487		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033803 DeKalb 26 May 1956 Davis, P.E.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026201 Winston 08 Apr 1978 Haynes, Robert R.
6413		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
UWAL0003490 Conecuh 15 Mar 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
18768		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000049768 Geneva 16 Feb 2017 Byrd, Cameron
746		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033806 Houston 29 Mar 1967 Barrick, William E.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
AUA000033817 Mobile 2 Apr 1955 Sledge, Eugene B.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
TROY000028581 Mobile 22 Feb 2009 Keener, Brian R.
5053		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UNA00056383 Bibb 25 Apr 1995 Birk, Michelle
196		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
JSU110280 Choctaw 13 Sep 1997 Higginbotham, Jerri W.
256		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0051426 Mobile 21 Apr 1968 Dean, Blanche E.
217		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum
TROY000038406 Autauga 21 Apr 2012 Keener, Brian R.
7140		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
JSU110289 Etowah 30 Jul 1995 Hodge-Spaulding, Lesley M.
4281		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000039489 Baldwin 26 Apr 1969 Rogers, H.
95		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026179 Cherokee 06 Jul 1978 Wiersema, John H.
373		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033818 Monroe 11 May 1981 O'Halloran, K.
135		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
ALNHS00004735 Baldwin 08 Mar 2017 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2938		 ALNHS
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033802 DeKalb 24 Jun 1972 Galloway, Juanita
58		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00064565 Pike 12 Mar 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
14979		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000009918 Dale 15 Feb 2000 Pennington, Tiffany
334		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033813 Macon 5 Apr 1966 Miller, Newell
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
AMAL00021430 Coosa 05 Oct 2014 Spaulding, Daniel D.
14203		 AMAL
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0031126 Coosa 05 Oct 2014 Spaulding, Daniel D.
14203		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
JSU110279 Cherokee 12 May 1988 Dickson, Catherine C.
s.n.		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033827 Russell 29 Jun 1959 Johnson, A.S.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00050987 Perry 22 May 1995 Birk, Michelle
249		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
UNA00026182 DeKalb 07 Jul 1978 Haynes, Robert R.
6588		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033801 Dale 8 Mar 1992 Diamond, Alvin R.
7938		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026185 Escambia 07 Aug 1979 Davenport, Lawrence J.
1484		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AMAL00000059 Lamar 28 Apr 2002 Keener, Brian R.
1990		 AMAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
UWAL0050780 Baldwin 14 Apr 1973 Villadsen, Martha
136		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000024727 DeKalb 29 Apr 1972 Landers, Kenneth E.
s.n.		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UNAF0000556 Colbert 20 Jun 1977 Goodes, Naaman D
s.n.		 UNAF
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0035933 Blount 21 Sep 2014 Anderson, Kelly
728		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000024842 Conecuh 15 Mar 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
18768		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
JSU110278 Calhoun 7 Jul 1982 Whetstone, R. David
11383		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033810 Lee 2 Jul 1962 Turner, Jr., C.J.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026187 Escambia 24 May 1980 Haynes, Robert R.
7818		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
JSU110290 Lawrence 17 Sep 1994 Spaulding, Daniel D.
6403		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UNA00026186 Escambia 24 Mar 1963 Deramus, Rebecca
276		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
UWAL0008226 Butler 15 Jun 2011 Diamond, Alvin R.
22253		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UWAL0054355 Perry 21 Mar 2021 Keener, Brian R.
12114		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000040354 Houston 8 Apr 2015 Barger, T. Wayne
DTP-94		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
AUA000033822 Russell 27 Mar 2005 Skipper, B.R.
10		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
TROY000028584 Washington 22 Feb 2009 Keener, Brian R.
5050		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
JSU110284 DeKalb 23 Oct 1997 Brodeur, Kristin R.
100		 JSU
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
UNA00022142 Coffee 28 Mar 1993 Haynes, Robert R.
9418		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033792 Baldwin 4 Apr 1975 Sessler, Ann H.
022		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00053367 Escambia 06 May 2000 Haynes, Robert R.
10052		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033815 Mobile 21 Apr 1951 Dahlen, James H.
 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026200 Washington 27 Mar 1977 Davenport, Lawrence J.
14		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033797 Conecuh 2 Mar 1986 Diamond, Alvin R.
2084		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UWAL0046879 Autauga 09 Mar 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
391		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033800 Crenshaw 17 Apr 1987 Diamond, Alvin R.
3126		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UWAL0010627 Autauga 21 Apr 2012 Keener, Brian R.
7140		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
ALNHS00001052 Baldwin 23 Feb 2012 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#364		 ALNHS
Orontium aquaticum L.
AUA000033820 Pike 12 Mar 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
14979		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UNA00026190 Henry 11 Jul 1978 Haynes, Robert R.
6649		 UNA
Orontium aquaticum L.
UWAL0005429 Mobile 02 Apr 1955 Sledge, E.B.
s.n.		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000009920 Pike 12 Mar 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
14979		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
SAMF0000204 Cleburne 04 May 2002 Barnes, Brett
7		 SAMF
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
AUA000033826 Russell 3 Apr 1971 Donavan, Lois A.
055		 AUA
Orontium Aquaticum L.
UWAL0002082 Coffee 25 Mar 2010 Diamond, Alvin R.
21205		 UWAL
Orontium aquaticum L.
TROY000044936 Autauga 09 Mar 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
391		 TROY
Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus
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