Canna flaccida
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Canna flaccida, Salisb. (C. glauca and C. angustifolia, Walt.). St. green and glabrous, 4-6 ft., very leafy below: lvs. ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute, green: raceme simple, lax and few-fld., the bracts very small; sepals lanceolate or oblong, acuminate, 1 in. long, green; petals broadly linear-lanceolate to obovate and reflexed, to 3 in. long (as is also the tube); staminodia obovate, sulfur-yellow,2-3 in. long by 1½ in. broad; lip large, yellow. Swamps S. C. to Fla., near the coast. L.B.C. 6:562. G.W. 12, p. 253.- Useful for its good habit and iris-like fls. C. Reevesii, Lindl., of India and the Philippines, has the outside staminodia acute rather than all obtuse or emarginated as in C. flaccida, and fls. less than 4 in. across rather than about 6 in. across. B.R. 2004. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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