Wapato Plant Description
Wapato have white or bluish tubers which are edible.
Wapato plant description. Its scientific name is sagittaria latifolia from the latin sagittaria saj i tare ee uh meaning arrow shaped and latifolia lat i fole ee uh for wide leaf wapato came to the corps attention on october 22 1805 near the mouth of the deschutes river. It is not always clear from the literature whether wapato refers specifically to sagittaria latifolia or solanum tuberosum the domesticated table potato. The lower lobes of the emergent leaf blades are less than the terminal lobe. Is an aquatic plant growing in swampy ground or standing water in ponds lakes stream edges and ditches hickman 1993.
The leaves are arrow shaped sagittate. Wapato as a jargon word for potato has a similarity with the spanish words batata or sweet potato and patata or potato. Prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle and gradually increase the depth of water as the plants grow until it is about 5cm above the top of the pot. The leaves are sagittate with 5 15 cm long erect or floating leaf blades.
W apato wah puh toe the indians called it. The leaves are sagittate with 5 15 cm long erect or floating leaf blades. Seed best sown as soon as it is ripe in a pot standing in about 5cm of water. The leaves and flower stalk rise above the water.
Wapato have white or bluish tubers which are edible. Wapato is an herbaceous wetland plant. Wapato sagittaria latifolia willd. Plant out in late spring or early summer of the following year.