Alisma triviale (Common Water-Plantain) - photos and description
Origin: Native.
General: Wetland plant with a leafless flower stalk, rising well above its leaves. Stems hairless.
Flowers: White flowers in a panicle, flower measured at 9 mm diameter.
Leaves: Leaves are basal, ovate, with long petioles. Leaf highlighted in photo above had a blade measured at 5.5 cm long and 3.5 cm wide. Top of leaves hairless, a few hairs on the central nerve on the bottom of the leaf.
Height: Height listed in Flora of the Great Plains to 100 cm, we measured plants to 80 cm tall.
Habitat: Habitat is marshes, streams, sloughs, lakeshores, ditches.
Abundance: Common.
When and where photographed: Took the above photos August 18th, wet ditch, parklands, 300 km east of our home in Regina, SK.