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Sagittaria or "arrowhead" is a genus of about 20 species of aquatic plant
Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants — also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes — are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments....
s whose members go by a variety of common names, including arrowhead, duck potato, iz-ze-kn, katniss, kuwai (??? in Japanese), swan potato, tule potato, and wapato (or wapatoo).

Several species bear tuber
Tuber

Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store nutrients. They are used by plants to overwinter and regrow the next year and as a means of asexual reproduction....
s edible as a starch
Starch

File:Amylose2.svgFile:Amylopektin Sessel.svgStarch or amylum is a polysaccharide carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds....
y root vegetable
Root vegetable

Root vegetables are plant roots used as vegetables. Other underground plants are often, erroneously, called root vegetables. Root vegetables include both true roots such as tuberous roots and taproots, but exclude non-roots such as tubers, rhizomes, corms, and bulbs....
 that are collected from the wild or cultivated as crops in North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
 and East Asia
East Asia

East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either Geography or cultural terms. Geography and geopolitically, it covers about 12,000,000 km?, or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia....
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k often stoloniferous and tuberiferous.






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Sagittaria or "arrowhead" is a genus of about 20 species of aquatic plant
Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants — also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes — are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments....
s whose members go by a variety of common names, including arrowhead, duck potato, iz-ze-kn, katniss, kuwai (??? in Japanese), swan potato, tule potato, and wapato (or wapatoo).

Several species bear tuber
Tuber

Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store nutrients. They are used by plants to overwinter and regrow the next year and as a means of asexual reproduction....
s edible as a starch
Starch

File:Amylose2.svgFile:Amylopektin Sessel.svgStarch or amylum is a polysaccharide carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds....
y root vegetable
Root vegetable

Root vegetables are plant roots used as vegetables. Other underground plants are often, erroneously, called root vegetables. Root vegetables include both true roots such as tuberous roots and taproots, but exclude non-roots such as tubers, rhizomes, corms, and bulbs....
 that are collected from the wild or cultivated as crops in North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
 and East Asia
East Asia

East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either Geography or cultural terms. Geography and geopolitically, it covers about 12,000,000 km?, or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia....
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Description


Stock often stoloniferous and tuberiferous. Leaves
Leaves

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 aerial, floating or submerged. Flowers unisexual or polygamous, in umbela, racemes or panicles with female or hermaphrodite flowers at the base and male flowers above or occasionally with the flowers all male or all female. Stamens usually numerous. Carpels numerous, spirally arranged, free, each with 1 ovule; styles apical or subventral. Fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
lets achenial, laterally compressed, obliquely obovate, the margins winged, with apical or ventral beak.

Probably due to introductions from the aquarium
Aquarium

An aquarium is a vivarium consisting of at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept. fishkeeping use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, marine mammals, turtles, and aquatic plants....
 trade, S. platyphylla (Engelm) G. E. Sm. is naturalized in at least one locality in N. Italy and S. subulata (L.) Buchenau in at least one locality in S. England.

Several species are commonly grown in aquariums or in the pond
Pond

A pond is a body of water smaller than a lake, both being examples of terrain feature. Although the term pond is universally used to describe waterbodies that are smaller than lakes, an internationally recognised size cutoff has not yet been agreed, with values ranging from 2 hectares to 8 hectares used to distinguish the smaller from...
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They are found in all United States. 6"-10" inches long and a half an inch wide.

Ecology


Found in canals, ponds, ditches and slow rivers but is never abundant

Species


  • Sagittaria aginashi Makino
  • Sagittaria cuneata E. P. Sheld. (Wapato, Arrowhead, Swamp Potato)
  • Sagittaria fasciculata
    Sagittaria fasciculata

    The bunched arrowhead is a plant found in wetlands. This plant produces edible tubers that were heavily collected by the Indigenous peoples of the Americass as a food source....
     (Bunched Arrowhead)
  • Sagittaria graminea (Grassy Arrowhead)
  • Sagittaria kurziana (Springtape or Strap-leaf Sagittaria)
  • Sagittaria lancifolia L. (Bulltongue Arrowhead)
  • Sagittaria latifolia
    Broadleaf arrowhead

    Sagittaria latifolia is a plant found in shallow wetlands and is sometimes known as broadleaf arrowhead, duck potato, Indian potato, or wapato....
     Willd. (Duck-potato, Broad Leaf Arrowhead)
  • Sagittaria montevidensis
    Sagittaria montevidensis

    Sagittaria montevidensis, the California Arrowhead, is a plant species found in shallow waters, native to the United States....
     (California Arrowhead)
  • Sagittaria platyphylla (Delta Arrowhead, Delta Duck-potato)
  • Sagittaria rigida Pursh. (Canadian Arrowhead)
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia L.
    Sagittaria sagittifolia

    Sagittaria sagittifolia is a flowering plant in the family Alismataceae, native to wetlands throughout the temperate regions of Europe and Asia; in Britain it is the only native Sagittaria....
     (Arrowhead)
  • Sagittaria subulata L. Buch. (Narrow-leaved Arrowhead)
  • Sagittaria trifolia L.


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