Small water-plantain (Alisma subcordatum)

Going off the trail into the wetland area we noticed numerous aquatic species. Water-plantain species grow in water, swamps, on muddy banks, or occasionally in wet sand. Leaves are long-petioled and in a clump with a long flowering stem rising above them. Flowers are very small and in widely branched clusters.

The small water-plantain blooms in the late spring and can be propagated by seeds and bare roots. The roots were actually traditionally dried and eaten by Indigenous tribes.