Sagittaria latifolia; Common arrowhead [Alismataceae]  Perennial aquatic herbs with distinctive, but variable, arrowhead-shaped emergent leaves.  Blooms in mid to late summer with white, 1" wide, 3-petalled, flowers, usually growing in whorls of 3 from an unbranched stalk.  Typically, staminate flowers are borne on the upper portion of the stalk, with pistillate flowers below.   Under water leaves long, narrow and not arrowhead-shaped.  Grows to 4’ tall as an emergent from shallow water or in marshes.  [031]

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