Taxon: Sagittaria latifolia Willd.

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A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

PRª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

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Common names:

• common arrowhead   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 ) – English
  
• duck-potato   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• muskrat-potato   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• wapato   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – American Indian (Chinook)
  
• wapatoo   (Source: Websters Dict ) – American Indian (Chinook)
  
• sagittaire à larges feuilles   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• sagittaire latifoliée   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• veränderliches Pfeilkraut   (Source: F Neotrop ) – German
  
• bredpilblad   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F Neotrop; Eur Gard F)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia [s.w.], Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Germany; Netherlands; Switzerland
  East Europe: Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Beal, E. O. 1960. The Alismataceae of the Carolinas. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 76:77.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:95–98.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Small, J. K. 1909. North American flora ser. 1, 1905-1957; ser. 2, 1954-1972 17.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sagittaria latifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sagittaria latifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sagittaria latifolia.

Synonyms:

• (=) Sagittaria chinensis Pursh
  

Check other web resources for Sagittaria latifolia Willd.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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