Sagittaria latifolia

Broad leaf arrowhead

Family: Alismataceae · Type: perennial · Native

Broad leaf arrowhead is a California native perennial found in California Floristic Province and Great Basin bioregions in ponds and slow streams at elevations below 1,500 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces white flowers with distinctive sagittate (arrow-shaped) leaves. Growing with ascending to erect stems and producing oblong white or bluish tubers, it forms clusters of emergent aquatic vegetation. Its leaves have characteristic arrow-shaped blades 1.5 to 30 centimeters long, with basal lobes nearly equal to the terminal lobe. The fruit develops with a short spreading beak 1 to 2 millimeters long.

Habitat: Ponds, slow streams

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: < 1500 m

Bioregions: CA-FP, GB

California counties: Modoc, Merced, Plumas, Inyo, Shasta, Butte, Riverside, Sonoma, Tuolumne, Yolo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Lake, Los Angeles, Mendocino, San Bernardino, El Dorado, Amador, Fresno, Kern, Lassen, Madera, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sierra, Siskiyou, Stanislaus, Yuba, Nevada, Santa Cruz, Sutter, Colusa, Placer, Solano, Glenn, Del Norte, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.