Orontium aquaticum

Golden club is a rhizomatous marginal aquatic perennial that typically grows in shallow water in swamps, marshes, ponds, slow-moving streams and bogs from Massachusetts to W. Virginia and Kentucky south to the Gulf of Mexico. Grows 1-2? tall and spreads indefinitely by stout, slowly creeping rhizomes. Long-stalked elliptic dark bluish-green leaves (to 12? long) are submerged, floating or aerial. If removed from water, submerged leaves appear totally dry because of their waxy glaucous surface, hence the sometimes common name of never-wet for this plant. Tiny yellow flowers appear in narrow club-like spadixes (to 8? tall) from April to June. Spathes of this Arum family member are small, non-showy and wither rapidly.