Bulltongue Arrowhead
Other Common Names: lanceleaf, arrowhead, duck potato, wapato
(Sagittaria lancifolia)
Native
Bulltongue arrowhead has firm leaves that taper at both ends. Leaves can grow a foot long and three inches wide. Flowers have three white petals.
Management Options
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Description
Bulltongue arrowhead stems can be simple or branch at the lower nodes and can have as many as 10 whorls. Firm leaves can be oval to elliptical or sword shaped and taper at both ends. Leaves can grow more than a foot long and three inches wide. Flowers bloom June through August and are less than a half inch in diameter. They have three white petals and a round green center. Many flowers grow at the end of each flower stem.
Bulltongue arrowhead grows in mud or shallow water that is stagnant or slow moving.
This perennial produces tubers under the mud and soil that ducks, geese, muskrats, and nutria love, which is where the name duck potato came from.
Location
Bulltongue arrowhead can be found in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.
Propagation
rhizomes, seeds, fragments
Management Options
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