Sagittaria latifolia is a plant found in shallow wetlands and is sometimes known as broadleaf arrowhead, [5] duck-potato, [6] Indian potato, or wapato. This plant produces edible tubers that …

Apr 8, 2016 · Here’s a hint: It loves its home in the Sandy River Delta where it helps nourish muskrats and porcupine with its tubers; swans, geese and ducks eat its seeds. Yes, it’s the …

Oct 28, 2023 · Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) is my favorite aquatic plant to forage and an important Native American traditional food.

On the Lower Columbia in Chinook Territory, Katzie families owned large patches of the wapato plants. Family groups camped beside their harvesting sites for a month or more. Indian women …

Aug 4, 2021 · Sagittaria latifolia is an emergent aquatic perennial. Due to its arrow-shaped foliage and fleshy tubers, it is often referred to as common arrowhead, broadleaf arrowhead, katniss, …

Wapato is a wetland plant native to North America with arrow-shaped leaves, white flowers, and potato-like tubers. Underground tubers taste somewhere between a sweet potato and yam, …

May 16, 2016 · Arrowhead also known as duck-potato, broadleaf arrowhead, Indian potato, or wapato is widely grown aquatic perennial plant. Arrowhead scientifically known as Sagittaria …

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Wapato is a tuberous plant that can grow prolifically in immense, homogenous, wetland fields hundreds of acres in extent. The roots were an important food and trade commodity for the …

Nov 28, 2023 · Wapato is a plant that grows in freshwater marshy areas with an edible, starchy tuber. Clark commented that “those roots are equal to the Irish potato, and is a tolerable …