(Broadleaf Arrowhead growing in the CSR Colorado Nursery Facility)
This aquatic is closely related to Water Plantain. In mud, rhizomes produce starchy tubers, utilized by ducks and muskrats and known as duck potatoes. The plant was once an important source of food for Native Americans, and Wapato is one of the names they gave it. The genus name comes from sagitta, Latin for arrow, referring to the shape of the leaves of some species. (reference)
Filed under: Native Focus Tagged: | edibles, native plants
