Canna ×generalis

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Species Distribution Map
Family:CANNACEAE
Species:Canna ×generalis L.H. Bailey
Common Name:Garden Canna
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Garden Canna is an introduced herbaceous perennial in the Canna family (Cannaceae). It is apparently a hybrid of garden origin between Canna indica L. and C. glauca L., or C. iridiflora Ruiz & and Pavóon. In Alabama it can be found at scattered locations throughout the state. Garden Canna is widely cultivated and persists or escapes around old home sites, along roadsides, around ponds and lakes, along streams, and in wet roadside ditches. It is a colonial perennial from thick fleshy rhizomes. Stems are 3-6 feet in height, unbranched, glabrous, and enclosed by the leaf sheaths. Leaves are 2-ranked, ovate to elliptic in outline, entire, glabrous, and sometimes glaucous. The leaves are green, bronze, or variegated in color. Flowers are produced in terminal racemes or panicles. Individual flowers consist of 3 distinct sepals and 3 petals untied at the base. There is one petal-like fertile stamen and 3-4 petal-like staminodes (sterile or abortive stamens). The style is petal-like and the ovary is warty or spiny, 3-locular, and inferior. Flower color varies from yellow to orange, red, or variegated. The fruit is a capsule. Garden Canna is a larval host for the Brazilian Skipper (Calpodes ethlius), which builds protective feeding tubes by folding or rolling the leaves together and securing them with silk.—A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native, OBL (NWI)
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyCANNACEAE - Canna family
Genus Canna
Species Canna ×generalis L.H. Bailey - Garden Canna

Citation

Citation Canna × generalis L.H. Bailey, Gentes Herbarum 1: 120. 1923.
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Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

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: Baldwin, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Coffee, Crenshaw, Elmore, Etowah, Geneva, Jackson, Mobile, Montgomery

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

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

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
JSU104982 Jackson 03 Jul 1998 Brodeur, Kristin R.
964		 JSU
Canna ×generalis Bailey
TROY000050917 Montgomery 28 Aug 2020 Diamond, Alvin R.
29366		 TROY
Canna ×generalis L.H. Bailey
AMAL00020737 Mobile 27 Sep 2014 Horne, Howard E.
2741		 AMAL
Canna ×generalis Bailey
UNA00056321 Geneva 04 Oct 1998 MacDonald, John R.
12447		 UNA
Canna X generalis Bailey (pro sp.)
JSU143254 Calhoun 10 May 1972 Davis, Pam
s.n.		 JSU
Canna ×generalis Bailey
TROY000038461 Elmore 08 Sep 2013 Diamond, Alvin R.
24512		 TROY
Canna ×generalis L.H. Bailey
ALNHS00004030 Elmore 29 Jul 2016 Taylor, Chris T.
SP#2385		 ALNHS
Canna × generalis L.H. Bailey & E.Z. Bailey
UNA00054538 Blount 05 Oct 1998 Keener, Brian R.
1704		 UNA
Canna X generalis Bailey (pro sp.)
UWAL0044402 Baldwin 09 Jul 2002 Larsen, Harry S.
1008		 UWAL
Canna × generalis L. H. Bailey
TROY000009986 Coffee 18 Sep 2000 Cole, Anthony
17		 TROY
Canna ×generalis Bailey
TROY000036393 Bullock 14 Sep 2012 Dykes, Bailee
1284		 TROY
Canna ×generalis Bailey
UWAL0013821 Bullock 14 Sep 2012 Dykes, Bailee
1284		 UWAL
Canna ×generalis Bailey
TROY000044954 Crenshaw 08 Jul 2917 Diamond, Alvin R.
27871		 TROY
Canna ×generalis L.H. Bailey
JSU104981 Etowah 20 Aug 1994 Hodge, Lesley M.
3081		 JSU
Canna ×generalis Bailey
JSU104983 Jackson 03 Jul 1998 Brodeur, Kristin R.
964		 JSU
Canna ×generalis Bailey
USAM000003421 Mobile 07 Aug 1981 LeLong, Michel G.
12227		 USAM
Canna ×generalis L.H. Bailey
TROY000051654 Montgomery 28 Jul 2020 Diamond, Alvin R.
29336		 TROY
Canna ×generalis L.H. Bailey
UWAL0015150 Elmore 08 Sep 2013 Diamond, Alvin R.
24512		 UWAL
Canna ×generalis L.H. Bailey
ALNHS00004253 Mobile 25 Aug 2016 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2561		 ALNHS
Canna x generalis Bailey
USAM000003422 Mobile 14 Aug 1980 LeLong, Michel G.
11305		 USAM
Canna ×generalis L.H. Bailey
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