Broad-leaved or Common Arrowhead or Wapato

Broad-leaved or Common Arrowhead or Wapato

Sagittaria latifolia

Water Plantain Family - Altismataceae

An unbranched stalk bears 3-petalled, white flowers (0.75 to 1 inch wide) arranged in whorls of three. (Photographed - mid-August)

An aquatic or shoreline plant (generally 1 to 2 feet tall).

Leaves basal, held erect, 2 to 16 inches in length, margins entire, and arrowhead-shaped with two slightly spreading, backward directed, pointed lobes.

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