Common names:
Broadleaf arrowhead, duck-potato
Family:
Scientific name:
Sagittaria latifolia
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered locations in south and central England; an introduced species, from North and South America
Height:
Up to 120 cm
Habitat:
Shallow water around the edges of streams, ponds and lakes
Flowers:
Up to 4 cm across; three recurved sepals and three broad, overlapping white petals (unmarked at the base), around a cluster of greenish pistils or yellow, hairless stamens, for which the filaments are longer than the anthers. Flowers form in several well-separated whorls of three, along the upper portion of the stem
Leaves:
Broadly arrowhead-shaped, on long stalks, triangular in cross-section. Blades are up to 30 cm long, with distinctive, palmate veins
Season:
July to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
