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|familia=Alismataceae
|genus=Sagittaria
|common_name=Arrowhead
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|habit=aquatic
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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"/>
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]].
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.
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.
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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.
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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==Cultivation==
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===Pests and diseases===
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==Species==
* ''[[Sagittaria aginashi]]''
* ''[[Sagittaria cuneata]]'' (Wapato, Arrowhead, Swamp Potato)
== Species ==
* ''[[Sagittaria aginashi]]'' Makino
* ''[[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)
* ''[[Sagittaria lancifolia]]'' L. (Bulltongue Arrowhead)
* ''[[Sagittaria lancifolia]]'' (Bulltongue Arrowhead)
* ''[[Broadleaf arrowhead|Sagittaria latifolia]]'' Willd. (Duck-potato, Broad Leaf Arrowhead)
* ''[[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)
* ''[[Sagittaria rigida]]'' Pursh. (Canadian Arrowhead)
* ''[[Sagittaria rigida]]'' (Canadian Arrowhead)
* [[Sagittaria sagittifolia|''Sagittaria sagittifolia'' L.]] (Arrowhead)
* [[Sagittaria sagittifolia|''Sagittaria sagittifolia'' L.]] (Arrowhead)
* ''[[Sagittaria subulata]]'' L. Buch. (Narrow-leaved Arrowhead)
* ''[[Sagittaria subulata]]'' (Narrow-leaved Arrowhead)
* ''[[Sagittaria trifolia]]'' L.
* ''[[Sagittaria trifolia]]''
==Gallery==
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Image:Wapato.JPG|''[[wapato]]'' bulb
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== External links ==
==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
==External links==
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* [http://www.wetwebmedia.com/PlantedTksSubWebIndex/sagittaria.htm The Arrowheads]
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