These plants are growing wild all over our pond, but
we aren't sure of their true name. Could anyone assist?
Many thanks,
Karen Marie
Could you help identify these (easy, I'm sure)
Here is a picture of the blooms. Sorry so blurry.
Number two, which hitched a ride on a plant from the nursery, we guess:
Trying to get a shot of the stems:
Hi Karen
Your first plant is an Arrowhead.
I'm not sure on the second. Maybe if you can get another pic of it's bloom this one is to blurry to tell..
Karen In Louisiana we called the first plant duck potato. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadleaf_arrowhead
This message was edited Jun 10, 2007 11:26 AM
Thank you both so much.
I visited the Dave's Garden Plant File on
the Arrowhead, which also goes by the name
of Duck Potato, as well as Wapato, but I'm curious
about the images posted.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1135/index.html
While the flower looks like the same one, the foliage
has me confused. The images seem to be of leaves
with a split, in a heart shape, whereas mine are just
plain leaves without splits. I would imagine there were
various forms of this particular Arrowhead?
Many thanks for your help! :-)
Karen Marie
The ones I had in Louisiana were not heart shaped or split either. They were more like long pattles. I got mine out of the swamp.
Betty
Hi Betty,
Yes, we pulled ours out of what one might call a swamp as well. It
is deeper in the middle and is full of Louisiana Black Gamecock Iris,
but the plants in question were growing on the edge of the pond.
I visited the link you provided, Betty, many thanks. Very interesting!
When I visited the plant files again, I found there were 15 plants in
the genus, so maybe I'll scroll through to find this one, which seems to
be a wild one.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/adv_search.php?searcher[common]=&searcher[family]=Alismataceae&searcher[genus]=Sagittaria&searcher[species]=&searcher[cultivar]=&searcher[hybridizer]=&Search=Search