Sagittaria brevirostra, common name Midwestern arrowhead or shortbeak arrowhead, is an aquatic plant species native to North America. It is a perennial herb growing up to tall, with arrow-shaped leaves and white flowers.Kenneth Kent Mackenzie & Benjamin Franklin Bush. 1905. Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden 16: 102–103. Sagittaria brevirostra (Bogin, Clifford. 1955. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 9(2): 224, Sagittaria engelmanniana subsp. brevirostraGreat Plains Flora Association. 1986. Flora of the Great Plains i–vii, 1–1392. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence.
It is common in wet places in an area stretching from Michigan and Ohio south to Alabama and west to North Dakota, Colorado and northern New Mexico, plus isolated populations in Maryland, New Brunswick, Virginia, Saskatchewan and California (Marin County).Biota of North America Program, Sagittaria brevirostra Image It can be found growing in shallow water along the edges of ponds, swamps, and waterways.
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External links photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, lectotype of Sagittaria brevirostra, collected in Missouri in 1903 Kansas Native Plants, Short Beak Arrowhead (Sagittaria brevirostra) Altervista, Sagittaria brevirostra Califlora taxon report Gardening Europe, Piantaggine d acqua Sagittaria brevirostra Mackenzie & Bush