Peltandra virginica(L.) Schott

Green Arrow Arum

WFO wfo-0000266706 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Peltandra virginica, photographed by Rick_Larimore
fig. a Rick_Larimore, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 202015280
Peltandra virginica, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. b Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203979304
Peltandra virginica, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202296536
Peltandra virginica, photographed by Kathy Daniel
fig. d Kathy Daniel, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197995508
Peltandra virginica, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. e Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201590400
Peltandra virginica, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. f Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199744904
Peltandra virginica, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. g Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198503149
Peltandra virginica, photographed by northerly
fig. h northerly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196116457

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Flowering n = 59 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 59 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 27 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alocasia virginica (L.) Raf.
  • Arum virginicum L.
  • Arum walteri Elliott
  • Caladium undulatum Steud.
  • Caladium virginicum (L.) Hook.
  • Calla virginica (L.) Michx.
  • Lecontia virginica (L.) Torr.
  • Peltandra angustifolia Raf.
  • Peltandra canadensis Raf.
  • Peltandra hastata Raf.
  • Peltandra heterophylla Raf.
  • Peltandra latifolia Raf.
  • Peltandra luteospadix Fernald
  • Peltandra tharpii F.A.Barkley
  • Peltandra undulata Schott
  • Peltandra undulata Raf.
  • Peltandra virginica f. angustifolia (Raf.) S.F.Blake
  • Peltandra virginica f. brachyota S.F.Blake
  • Peltandra virginica f. hastifolia S.F.Blake
  • Peltandra virginica f. heterophylla (Raf.) S.F.Blake
  • Peltandra virginica f. latifolia (Raf.) S.F.Blake
  • Peltandra virginica f. rotundata S.F.Blake
  • Peltandra virginica subsp. luteospadix (Fernald) W.H.Blackw. & K.P.Blackw.
  • Peltandra virginica var. angustifolia (Raf.) Tidestr.

and 3 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.