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Sagittaria cuneata
Also called Northern Arrowhead, Arum Leaved Arrowhead, Duck Potato Arrowhead, Tule Potato, Wapato, Wapatum Arrowhead, Arum Leaf Arrowhead
Arumleaf arrowhead (Sagittaria cuneata) is a North American aquatic perennial that grows from a tuber in slow-moving or still water such as ponds and small streams. It is a species within the Alismataceae family, and its arrow-shaped leaves and white flowers vary with whether they grow submerged or above the surface.
Sagittaria cuneata is a North American species of flowering plant in the water plantain family known by the common name arumleaf arrowhead or duck potato. Like some other Sagittaria species, it may be called wapato.
It is native to much of North America, including most of Canada (every province and territory except Nunavut) as well as the western and northeastern United States (New England, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Rocky Mountain, Great Basin and Pacific Coast states; including Alaska but not Hawaii).
The Cheyenne give dried leaves to horses for urinary troubles and for a sore mouth. The Klamath use the rootstocks as food. The Menominee string the dried, boiled, sliced potatoes together for winter use. The Ojibwe eat the corms for indigestion, and also as a food, eaten boiled fresh, dried or candied with maple sugar. They would sometimes look for caches of this plant made by muskrats or beavers and appropriate them for their own use. The Northern Paiute use the roots for food. The indigenous people of Montana eat the tubers raw and boiled.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sagittaria cuneata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
