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Sagittaria
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Short Description
Sagittaria is a genus of about 30 species of aquatic plants whose members go by a variety of common names, including arrowhead, duck potato, swamp potato, tule potato, and wapato. Most are native to South, Central, and North America, but there are also some from Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Description
Sagittaria plant stock (the perennial rhizome) is a horizontal creeper (stoloniferous). and obliquely obovate, the margins winged, with apical or ventral beak; in other words, they are a small, dry, one-seeded fruit that do not open to release the seed, set on a slant, narrower at the base, with winged edges, and having a "beaked" aperture (one side longer than the other) for sprouting, set above or below the fruit body.[clarification needed] Other names are Pshitola (Dakota), Si" (Omaha-Ponca), Si-poro (Winnebago) and Kirit (Pawnee), “cricket ” (from the likeness of the tuber to the form of a cricket) ; known also as kits-hat, “ standing in water,” the tuber being termed kirit.


