Sagittaria longiloba
Family: Alismataceae
Plant Description: Perennial to 90 cm or higher with elliptical leaves 20-40 cm long, mostly erect. Leaves more or less erect or leaning, arrowhead shaped to 25 cm. Flowers on branching inflorescences; 3 white petals, 8-16 mm long. Fruit are achenes crowded on a roundish receptacle.
Plant Trivia: Sagittaria is Latin meaning “arrowhead”. Spanish common name translates as “water arrow”.
Field Identification: Located in wet to submerged places; arrowhead-shaped leaves give it away.
Occurrence: Common in shallow water of ditches, swales, ponds, lakes, and streams; often found in muddy areas.
Bloom Period: April-December
Plant Use: Sandhill cranes eat its tubers. Pond landscaping.
Key to species of Sagittaria is found in Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend by Roy L. Leyman, Ruth O’Brien and Tammy White.
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