Alismataceae - Botanical Family

Botanical name: Echinodorus longiscapus

Common name: Sword-Plant

Family: Alismataceae

Origin: South America

Botanical name: Echinodorus palaefolius

Common name: Mexican Sword-Plant

Family: Alismataceae

Origin: Brazil

Echinodorus palaefolius has round leaves with a horizontal leaf base. Under water the leaves are narrower and longer. The next leaves will then become shorter and the plant will remain under water. Common as aquarium plants, they grow even larger as emersed pond plants.

Botanical name: Echinodorus sp.

Common name: Sword-Plant

Family: Alismataceae

Origin: South America

Botanical name: Hydrocleys martii

Common name: Water Poppy

Family: Alismataceae    (Formerly:Limnocharitaceae)

Origin: South America

Botanical name: Sagittaria lancifolia

Common name: Bulltongue Arrowhead

Family: Alismataceae

Origin: Southeastern United States

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The plant is conspicuous for its large, lance-shaped leaves which grow up from underground rhizomes and its showy, white three-petaled flowers which form at the end of long, thick stalks. The plant likes to grow in fresh or brackish water and is commonly found in ditches, marshes, swamps and along the shores of lakes and streams.

Botanical name: Sagittaria sagittifolia

Common name: Broadleaf Arrowhead

Family: Alismataceae

Origin: Temperate regions of Europe and Asia

Sagittaria sagittifolia (Broadleaf Arrowhead) is a small perennial aquatic or bog plant native to temperate regions of Europe and Asia. This small plant is typically no more than 2-5 ft in height with leaves that have an arrow-shape. It produces profuse white and off-white flowers in the summer, which can lasts for weeks. It is best placed in full sun and van be grown in USDA zones 5-9.

In some areas, Sagittaria sagittifolia has been used as an ethnomedical plant. The rhizome of Sagittaria sagittifolia are used by the North American Indians and the Chinese as starchy foods, as are some other species. As such, it is an important plant in many cultures, both for its beauty and its practical uses.

Sagittaria sagittifolia 'Flore Pleno' is a double flowering arrowhead is very beautiful and hard to get.

The plants grows very fast in tropical climate so it gets invasive.