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'''''Sagittaria''''' or "arrowhead" is a genus of about 30<ref name="fna">[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=129016 3. Sagittaria Linnaeus], ''[[Flora of North America]]''</ref> species of [[aquatic plant]]s whose members go by a variety of common names, including '''arrowhead''', '''duck potato''', '''iz-ze-kn''',<ref>[http://vets.com/questionmanager/encyclopaedia/ency1/B1.HTM#ARROWHEAD The Probert Encyclopaedia - Animals And Plants (A)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> '''katniss''', '''kuwai''', '''swan potato''', '''tule potato''', and '''wapato''' (or '''wapatoo''').  Most are native to South America, Central America, and North America, but there are also some from Europe and Asia.<ref name="fna"/>
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Several species bear [[tuber]]s edible as a [[starch]]y [[root vegetable]] that are collected from the wild or cultivated as crops in [[North America]] and [[East Asia]].
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Stock often stoloniferous and tuberiferous. [[Leaves]] 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]]lets achenial, laterally compressed, obliquely obovate, the margins winged, with apical or ventral beak.
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Several species are commonly grown in [[aquariums]] or in the [[pond]].
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They are found in all United States. 6"-10" inches long and a half an inch wide.
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Sagittaria (sagitta is Latin for arrow, referring to the arrow-shaped leaves). Alismaceae. Arrowhead. Perennial hardy herbs useful for foliage effects in bogs and shallow ponds and also for their white buttercup-like flowers.
 
Sagittaria (sagitta is Latin for arrow, referring to the arrow-shaped leaves). Alismaceae. Arrowhead. Perennial hardy herbs useful for foliage effects in bogs and shallow ponds and also for their white buttercup-like flowers.
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S. macrophylla has appeared in trade-lists as "a variety with large foliage and tall lax spikes of white fls." Its botanical position is uncertain as there are two distinct things of this name, one a valid species, the other a large-lvd. form of S. sagittifolia.
 
S. macrophylla has appeared in trade-lists as "a variety with large foliage and tall lax spikes of white fls." Its botanical position is uncertain as there are two distinct things of this name, one a valid species, the other a large-lvd. form of S. sagittifolia.
 
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'''''Sagittaria''''' is a genus of about 20 species of [[aquatic plant]]s whose members go by a variety of common names, including '''arrowhead''', '''duck potato''', '''katniss''', '''kuwai''', '''swan potato''', '''tule potato''', and '''wapatoo'''. 
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Several species bear [[tuber]]s edible as a [[starch]]y [[root vegetable]] that are collected from the wild or cultivated as crops in [[North America]] and [[East Asia]].
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==Species==
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* ''[[Sagittaria aginashi]]''
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== Description ==
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* ''[[Sagittaria cuneata]]'' (Wapato, Arrowhead, Swamp Potato)
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[[Image:Sagittaria sagittifolia bloem kl.jpg|left|thumb|''[[Sagittaria sagittifolia]]'' flowers]]
 
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Stock often stoloniferous and tuberiferous. [[Leaves]] 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]]lets achenial, laterally compressed, obliquely obovate, the margins winged, with apical or ventral beak.
 
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Probably due to introductions from the [[aquarium]] 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.
 
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Several species are commonly grown in [[aquariums]] or in the [[pond]].
 
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Found in canals, ponds, ditches and slow rivers but is never abundant
 
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* ''[[Sagittaria aginashi]]'' Makino
 
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* ''[[Sagittaria cuneata]]'' E. P. Sheld. (Wapato, Arrowhead, Swamp Potato)
 
 
* ''[[Sagittaria fasciculata]]'' (Bunched Arrowhead)
 
* ''[[Sagittaria fasciculata]]'' (Bunched Arrowhead)
 
* ''[[Sagittaria graminea]]'' (Grassy Arrowhead)
 
* ''[[Sagittaria graminea]]'' (Grassy Arrowhead)
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* ''[[Sagittaria lancifolia]]'' L. (Bulltongue Arrowhead)  
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* ''[[Sagittaria lancifolia]]'' (Bulltongue Arrowhead)  
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* ''[[Broadleaf arrowhead|Sagittaria latifolia]]'' Willd. (Duck-potato, Broad Leaf Arrowhead)
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* ''[[Broadleaf arrowhead|Sagittaria latifolia]]'' (Duck-potato, Broad Leaf Arrowhead)
 
* ''[[Sagittaria montevidensis]]'' (California Arrowhead)
 
* ''[[Sagittaria montevidensis]]'' (California Arrowhead)
 
* ''[[Sagittaria platyphylla]]'' (Delta Arrowhead, Delta Duck-potato)
 
* ''[[Sagittaria platyphylla]]'' (Delta Arrowhead, Delta Duck-potato)
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* ''[[Sagittaria rigida]]'' Pursh. (Canadian Arrowhead)
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* ''[[Sagittaria rigida]]'' (Canadian Arrowhead)
 
* [[Sagittaria sagittifolia|''Sagittaria sagittifolia'' L.]] (Arrowhead)
 
* [[Sagittaria sagittifolia|''Sagittaria sagittifolia'' L.]] (Arrowhead)
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* ''[[Sagittaria subulata]]'' L. Buch. (Narrow-leaved Arrowhead)
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* ''[[Sagittaria subulata]]'' (Narrow-leaved Arrowhead)
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* ''[[Sagittaria trifolia]]'' L.
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* ''[[Sagittaria trifolia]]''
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* Rataj, K., Annot. Zool. Bot. (Bratislava) 76:1-31 (1972); 78:1-61 (1972)
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Image:Wapato.JPG|''[[wapato]]'' bulb
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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* [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=38903 ITIS report]
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* [http://www.wwmag.net/wapato.htm Article on gathering wild ''S. latifolia'']
 
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* [http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Sagittaria+graminea&CAN=COMIND Plants for a Future]
 
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* [http://www.wetwebmedia.com/PlantedTksSubWebIndex/sagittaria.htm The Arrowheads]
 
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* [http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/environment/culres/ethbot/q-s/Sagittaria.htm Ethnobotany of S. latifolia]
 
  
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Scientific Names

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Sagittaria or "arrowhead" is a genus of about 30[1] species of aquatic plants whose members go by a variety of common names, including arrowhead, duck potato, iz-ze-kn,[2] katniss, kuwai, swan potato, tule potato, and wapato (or wapatoo). Most are native to South America, Central America, and North America, but there are also some from Europe and Asia.[1]

Several species bear tubers edible as a starchy root vegetable that are collected from the wild or cultivated as crops in North America and East Asia.

Stock often stoloniferous and tuberiferous. Leaves 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. Fruitlets achenial, laterally compressed, obliquely obovate, the margins winged, with apical or ventral beak.

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

They are found in all United States. 6"-10" inches long and a half an inch wide.


Read about Sagittaria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Sagittaria (sagitta is Latin for arrow, referring to the arrow-shaped leaves). Alismaceae. Arrowhead. Perennial hardy herbs useful for foliage effects in bogs and shallow ponds and also for their white buttercup-like flowers.

Plants of mostly erect habit, aquatic, the lvs. and scapes arising from more or less tuberous or knotted rootstocks: lvs. typically arrow-shaped, with long basal lobes, but sometimes long and linear: fls. imperfect, monoecious (staminate fls. usually in the uppermost whorls) or dioecious, with 3 white broad petals and 3 small greenish sepals, the stamens and pistils numerous, the latter ripening into small achenes; infl. composed of successive whorls of 3-stalked fls. Sometimes the lvs. are floating. The number of species admitted is variable, but Buchenau in the last treatment of the genus in Engler’s Das Pflanzenreich, hft. 16 (iv. 15, 1903) describes 31. Temperate and tropical regions of the world though lacking in Afr. and Austral.

Sagittarias are mostly used for colonizing in the open, but S. montevidensis—now the most popular species—is grown in indoor aquaria or plunged in open ponds in the summer. The arrowheads are perennials of easy culture, although likely to be infested with aphis. Propagation is by division, or sometimes by seeds.

S. macrophylla has appeared in trade-lists as "a variety with large foliage and tall lax spikes of white fls." Its botanical position is uncertain as there are two distinct things of this name, one a valid species, the other a large-lvd. form of S. sagittifolia.


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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 3. Sagittaria Linnaeus, Flora of North America
  2. ↑ The Probert Encyclopaedia - Animals And Plants (A)
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