Common Arrowhead

(Sagittaria latifolia)

Common arrowhead

Leaves Flowers
Common arrowhead leaf Common arrowhead flowers

Growing habit: Coarse, amphibious or aquatic perennial herb, milky sap

Root/stem anatomy: Fibrous with slender rhizomes and terminal corms as overwintering structures

Leaves: From base, blades long-petioled, spongy-inflated below, orientation of basal lobes very variable

Reproduction: Raceme of up to 10 whorls, petals white

Reference: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice