Slender Arrowhead

(Sagittaria teres)

 

Color Photograph: NRCS Plants Database, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

Slender Arrowhead (Sagittaria teres)

Identification: Aquatic. Flowers with three, large white petals. Flowers arranged in groups of three. Leaves cylindrical or stringlike with an apical broading of the blade.

Distribution: Along the eastern coast from Massachusetts to Maryland.

Habitat: Slender Arrowhead is a coastal species found in swamps and shallow water.

Flowering period: July to October.

 

Slender Arrowhead (Sagittaria teres)

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Slender Arrowhead can usually be identified by the thin cylindrical or threadlike leaves.

Grass-leaved Arrowhead (Sagittaria graminea)

 

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