Arrowhead
Sagittaria sagittifolia
In Dutch: Pijlkruid
Water & marginal plantsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 0.3 to 0.9 m
- Spread
- 0.5 to 1.5 m
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Full sun
- Soil
- Clay, loam or sand under shallow water
- Water
- Plenty: the base stands in water
- Maintenance
- Low: rein in the runners now and then
- Flowers
- June to September, white with purple
- For bees
- Little: not a known forage plant for honeybees
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No, as far as is known
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €4.61 to €5.45 each, in a small pot
- Price, grown
- About €8.50 to €10.50 each, in a pond basket
Through the year
- Leaf
- May to October
- Flower
- June to September
- Fruit
- August to October