BROAD-LEAVED ARROWHEAD 
Sagittaria latifolia. Water-plantain Family. 
HE Arrowhead is a very decorative and common, 
mud-loving, white-flowered aquatic perennial, 
blooming from July to September, in shallow water 
along the margins of slow streams, ponds, and marshes. 
The exceedingly variable leaves are generally arrow- 
shaped, sometimes sharp and narrow, or again blunt 
and broad. They are thick, spongy, and rubbery, 
and have long stems. Others, which are entirely 
submerged under the water, are long and grass-like. 
The many-angled, milky-juiced, flowering stalk is either 
stout or slender, and grows from a few inches to sev- 
eral feet in height. The flowers have three prom- 
inent, rounded, spreading, white petals with either a 
central cluster of golden yellow stamens or a large, 
green pistil. They are of two sorts, male and female, 
and may or may not occur together on the same plant. 
In the latter case, the pretty male, or yellow-centred, 
stamen-bearing flowers are borne on the upper part of 
the stalk, while the female or green-centred, pistil- 
bearing flowers occur below them. ‘They are arranged 
in whorls of three, on short stems, at regular dis- 
tances along the stalk. The calyx has three green 
parts. The Arrowhead ranges from Mexico far into 
the British Possessions, and from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific. S. pubescens is a robust, broad leaved variety, 
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