Vegetation & Wildflowers
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Arrowhead Blossoms II
Raceme of male blossoms of broadleaf arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia), also known as duck potato, a common plant of shallow wetlands throughout much of North America. Taken at a State Wildlife Management Area near Little Falls, Minnesota.
Despite the name duck potato, ducks rarely consume the tubers, which are usually buried too deep for them to reach, although they often eat the seeds. Beavers, North American Porcupines, and Muskrats, however, eat the whole plant. The tubers were also an important food source to indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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